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Haryana to promote pisciculture

Chandigarh: Haryana Government is planning to bring 20,000 hectares of water area under pisciculture and to produce 90,000 tonnes of fish by stocking 4,000 lakh seeds by the end of the 11th Five Year Plan.

An area of 200 hectares would be renovated under the National Fisheries Development Board, for which the Board had released Rs 24.50 lakh, a spokesman of the Fisheries Department said.

He said four centres would be established to provide training to 200 beneficiaries for intensive pisciculture in their renovated ponds.

The Board had already released Rs 9.18 lakh in this regard. He said three fish markets had been established and two new markets at Bahadurgarh and Gurgaon would be set up, for which the Union Government had released Rs 84.64 lakh as 100 per cent grant. PTI

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