Challenges and opportunities on freshwater prawn farming sector in West Bengal: Management practices

West Bengal has 406,000 hectares of brackish water – making it the largest area in the country for potential shrimp production. It therefore hardly comes as a surprise that the state is the second largest producer of shrimp (mainly P. Monodon and L. vannamei) in India, only beaten by Andhra Pradesh
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Balaraman Deivasigamani
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According to Census 2011 information the location code or village code of Radhakantapur Abad village is 335177. Radhakantapur Abad village is located in the Mathurapur Ii subdivision of South Twenty-Four Parganas district in West Bengal, India. It is situated 10.9km away from sub-district headquarters Baribhanga Abad (tehsildar office) and 67.8km away from district headquarters Alipore. As per 2009 stats, Radhakantapur is the gram panchayat of Radhakantapur Abad village. The total geographical area of the village is 1150.52 hectares. Radhakantapur Abad has a total population of 8,442 people, out of which the male population is 4,272 while the female population is 4,170. The literacy rate of Radhakantapur Abad village is 60.90% out of which 67.60% of males and 54.03% of females are literate. There are about 1,769 houses in Radhakantapur Abad village. The Pincode of Radhakantapur Abad village locality is 743354.  Over 1 lakh (100,000) farmers in Bengal, particularly in districts like East Midnapore, have switched over to shrimp cultivation. Though it has brought wealth to some, many have faced devastating losses due to outbreaks of disease. Huge tracts of once-fertile land have been dug up for shrimp cultivation across several districts in Bengal. 

Go to the profile of Balaraman Deivasigamani
Balaraman Deivasigamani
Professor, Annamnalai University

Working as an Associate Professor in Annamalai University Department of CAS in Marine Biology,  Parangipettai - 608 502 Tamil Nadu India. Teaching experience of more than 20 years and research experience of more than 25 years.

I am Dr.B.Deivasigamani, working as an Associate Professor & UGC-Research Awardee, DST-SERB Young Scientist Awardee, AWARD FOR INCREDIBLE RESEARCHER OF INDIA -2021 by Record Owner Delhi- 110009, India. (23.08.2021),Outstanding Scientist Award (August 2021) by VD Good Professional Association of India, Life timeDignitary Fellows (August 2021)by the International Organization for Academic and Scientific Development, OUTSTANDING FACULTY OF THE YEAR-2021. EET CRS Research Wings for excellence in professional education & industry present the 9th Branding Award July 2021 by Kolkata India. My area of research is fish immunology. I have published 15 books, 15 manuals and more than 88 research papers in reputed International journals and 10 National journals. I am an editorial board member and reviewer of International Academic Journals and have professional membership of Indian Science Congress Association (Life member), Journal of Environmental Biology and Journal of Aquatic Biology. Identified 75 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence. I completed two minor projects (UGC minor and TNSCST student project) and nine Major projects UGC, MoES, CSIR, DST-SERB and Indo-Vietnam (DST-MOST)-International collaborative project. I visited Vietnam country for the Indo-Vietnam collaborative project bilateral research project meeting from August 2012 to 2014. I conducted 26 training programs on fish immunology and immuno-technology,  Enzyme technology sponsored by UGC, DBT and DST, Government of India, New Delhi and a summer training Programme on Bioprocess Technology (Enzyme Technology).

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