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Punjab all set for a `blue revolution' in farm sector

Staff Correspondent

State's per unit area of fish production is at 6094 kg per hectare as against the national average of 2600 kg

CHANDIGARH: After the success of the `green' and the `white', Punjab is all set to usher in the `blue' edition of revolution in the farm sector, State's Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development and Fisheries Minister Jagmohan Singh Kang has said.

An official release quoting Mr. Kang said that Punjab had kept its record intact for per unit area of fish production at 6094 kg per hectare, as against national average of 2600 kg.

Mr. Kang said that the area under fish culture had steadily increased to 9890 hectares from about 8960 hectares last year. Besides this, production of fish from natural resources had gone up to 85,642 tones during the year 2005-06 in comparison to 77698 tones in the previous year.

The Minister also said that the department, through its 14 fish seed farms, had laid special emphasis on increasing the production of quality fish seed of Indian major carp and exotic carp. While the department's seed production went up to 4.37 crores during 2005-06 in comparison to 3.70 crores during the last year, an additional 9.50 crores fish seed was being produced in private sector as well.

The Minister added that the State was committed to furthering the blue revolution, for which an amount of Rs. 7.5 crores had been allocated for fish farming during the current fiscal as compared to Rs. 2.15 crores in 2004-05.

He said that during the last year fish farmers of the State had received a subsidy of Rs. 66.67 lakhs.

Meanwhile, the State Government has chalked out an ambitious plan to develop all the village ponds as fish farms, Mr. Kang disclosed. As many as 500 villages of Hoshiarpur district have already been taken up under this scheme where an amount of Rs. 3.5 crores was being spent.

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