Fisheries in the Development of Indian Economy

Fisheries sector plays a vital role in Indian economy through substantial forex earnings, employment generation and ensuring nutritional and food security. Contribution of fisheries to total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at current prices is about 1.3 percent. The fisheries economy of our country has undergone rapid structural changes during the last few decades. The vast technological options available to fishers led them for a fast shift from traditional to mechanised and motorised fishing methods in marine fisheries and from traditional to improved seed production and culture practices in inland fisheries

Human resources development in fisheries

Human resources development is an important part of fisheries development. Keeping this in view, the Government of India established the Central Institute of Fisheries Education (CIFE) at Bombay In 1961. The Institute during Its eventful 25 years of service has provided the requisite trained manpower at different levels for fisheries development, industry, research, education, training and extension. In addition to regular courses, a large number of short term training programmes on selected topics have also been conducted at national and Inlernational levels to meet specific demands. The Institute is today recognised as the centre of excellence in higher education in fisheries

Indian Shrimp Trade: Reflections and Prospects in the Post-WTO Era

Indian fisheries sector in view of its potential contribution to national income, nutritional security, employment opportunities, social objectives, and export earnings plays an important role in the 50cio~economic development of the country. The marine products exports contributed a whopping 7245 crofes of foreign exchange to the exchequer during 2005- 2006, which is onethird of the total agricultural exports and 1.5 percent of the total GDP. Shrimps continue to be the predominant item in our. marine export claiming about 29 and 67 percent in quantity and value tenns share, respectively. Until recently, India depended heavily on one product (shrimp) and one market (Japan) for its marine products export and thus there is a need for product and market diversification

Fisheries Project Formulation and Management

Project formulation is an important part of entrepreneurship development. Fisheries sector, hosting a gamut of entrepreneurship venture, requires technical know-how in project formulation and management. Keeping this in mind, my colleagues Mr. Shyam S. Salim, Scientist and Dr. R. S. Biradar, Principal Scientist of Fisheries Informatics, Technology Evaluation and Transfer Division of this Institute have written a course manual on "FISHERIES PROJECT FORMULA TlON AND MANAGEMENT' in a simple and systematic manner to cater to the requirements and expectations of students of fishery science. The manual contains basic concepts and applications, which are necessary to understand and practice the subject

Pattern Based Mining For Relevant Document Extraction

This paper presents efficient mining algorithm for discovering patterns from text collection and search for useful and interesting patterns. For extracting useful information we used pattern based model containing frequent sequential patterns and pruned the meaningless patterns. Here an innovative and effective technique is used for pattern discovery which includes SPM & FP growth algorithms for pattern mining and applies the processes of pattern deploying, pattern evolving, to improve the effectiveness of using and updating discovered patterns for finding relevant and interesting information

Techno-economic viability of rice-fish culture in Assam

The economic viability of rice-fish culture practiced by the fanners of Assam in North- Eastern part of India was evaluated using techno-economic approach. The fanners followed extensive level farming practice using low input technology. Cobb-Douglas production function was used to determine the input-output relationship of the system. The cost and return evaluation shows that rice-fish culture can be a more profitable option than monoculture of paddy

Ethnomedicinal wisdom of tribals of Mahur forest of Nanded district, Maharashtra, India.

Mahur range forest of Nanded district is rich in medicinal plants. In the present paper 25 plants species belonging to 25 genera and 20 families used in folk medicine has been documented. Due to poor condition of modern healthcare facilities and poverty the tribal people and rustics of the forest fully or partially depend on local medicinal plants. An attempt has been made to document traditional knowledge from tribal people, medicinal practitioner, traditional healers medicinemen, herbal venders, rustics etc. The plants were enumerated alphabetically along with botanical name, family and vernacular name.&nbsp

Reorienting fisheries economics education in India

Social sciences act as catalysts for Biological sciences. The implications of social sciences whether it be extension, economics, statistics or any other discipline, had taken a long stride in its development and applicability from its general nature to the specificity in the biological sciences especially in the Agricultural and allied sectors. There is no second thought in the dictum "Man is a social animal". Social sciences personifies human behaviour. There are no activities or issues which remain untouched by these sciences

Economic analysis of fisheries projects

Project formulation is an important part of entrepreneurship development. Fisheries sector, hosting a gamut of entrepreneurship venture, corroborates the importance of technical know how in project planning, formulation and implementation. Diverse information in projects targeted at a heterogeneous g roup has been modified to suit the needs of an entrepreneur seeking assistance in his venture. This book on "Economic Analysis of Fisheries Projects' contains citations and applications, which caters to the needs of professional graduates and postgraduates in fisherie

Role of universities in socio-economic development

A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. It also provides both tertiary and qnatemary education. University is derived from the Latin word universitas, meaning corporation, since the first "modem" (medieval European) universities were simply groups ofscholar