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Aqua Foods
India is a major maritime State and an important Aquaculture country in the world. India stands fourth in the world with regard to total fish production. Aquaculture is increasingly becoming important, with an annual growth rate of over 6%. With varied agro-ecological zones, the country possesses immense potentials ranging from marine fisheries to coldwater fisheries in the mountains, including coastal aquaculture, riverine fisheries, pond aquaculture. Thus fisheries and aquaculture have become important enterprises across the country, in both coastal and inland States, for adding to the food basket, employment generation as well as economy of different regions.
National Knowledge Commission feels that the fisheries and aquaculture sector in the country is poised to play a major role in the lives of the people in the coming decades, with increasing population pressure on land and alternative food production systems being increasingly projected from the aquatic resources. Thus NKC has decided to constitute a Working Group on Aqua-Foods, to explore the possibilities of tapping water bodies as a potential source of food.
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