India's first fisheries incubator inaugurated in Gurugram

India's first fisheries incubator inaugurated in Gurugram

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Category : National Published on: November 18 2021

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  • The country's first dedicated Business Fisheries Incubator, which will be known as LINAC-NCDC Fisheries Business Incubation Center (LIFIC), has been inaugurated by Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying Purushottam Rupala in Gurugram, Haryana. 
  • This incubator has been built at a cost of Rs 3.23 crore.
  • The LIFIC's implementing agency, the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC), has identified the first batch of ten incubates from four states: Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra.
  • Six of them are from newly formed fish farmer producer organisations, which are assisted by financial grants under the scheme.
  • Fisheries is a booming industry in India, growing at a 7% annual rate. In total, there are approximately 30,000 cooperatives in the fisheries sector.
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