Rajshahi Correspondent :
Fisheries experts and development activists in a training sessions observed modern fish farming could be the effective means of boosting its production which is important for cutting protein deficiency and unemployment problem in rural areas.
They called for involving more people in fish farming for the sake of meeting up the protein demand as fish fulfill at least 60 percent need of the animal protein especially of the poor and marginal communities.
They were addressing a daylong training titled “Modern Fish Farming and Pond Management” at Gogram Union Parisad Hall room under Godagari Upazila of the district recently.
Centre for Capacity Building of Volunteer Organization (CCBVO), a non-government development organization, organized the training course in association with Bread for the World, Germany.
More than 30 members, supervisors and organizers both male and female from village-based sustainable food security programme took part in the training.
UP Chairman Mujibur Rahman inaugurated the course as chief guest while Upazila fisheries Officer Shamsul Karim conducted the training sessions as resource persons. CCBVO Project Coordinator Mahbub Jaman and Training Coordinator Arif Hossain also spoke.
The discussants unanimously said all the field level officials and others concerned should perform their duties with utmost sincerity and honesty for substantial and sustainable reaching of fish farming technologies to the grassroots growers for boosting fish production.
They stressed the need for enhancing fish farming through the best use of modern technologies and existing natural resources. Besides, they opined that enhanced fish production can be the vital means to meet the gradually increasing protein demands coupled with poverty alleviation among marginalized communities.
Fisheries experts and development activists in a training sessions observed modern fish farming could be the effective means of boosting its production which is important for cutting protein deficiency and unemployment problem in rural areas.
They called for involving more people in fish farming for the sake of meeting up the protein demand as fish fulfill at least 60 percent need of the animal protein especially of the poor and marginal communities.
They were addressing a daylong training titled “Modern Fish Farming and Pond Management” at Gogram Union Parisad Hall room under Godagari Upazila of the district recently.
Centre for Capacity Building of Volunteer Organization (CCBVO), a non-government development organization, organized the training course in association with Bread for the World, Germany.
More than 30 members, supervisors and organizers both male and female from village-based sustainable food security programme took part in the training.
UP Chairman Mujibur Rahman inaugurated the course as chief guest while Upazila fisheries Officer Shamsul Karim conducted the training sessions as resource persons. CCBVO Project Coordinator Mahbub Jaman and Training Coordinator Arif Hossain also spoke.
The discussants unanimously said all the field level officials and others concerned should perform their duties with utmost sincerity and honesty for substantial and sustainable reaching of fish farming technologies to the grassroots growers for boosting fish production.
They stressed the need for enhancing fish farming through the best use of modern technologies and existing natural resources. Besides, they opined that enhanced fish production can be the vital means to meet the gradually increasing protein demands coupled with poverty alleviation among marginalized communities.
