Odisha has doubled the farmers’ real income during the last decade through high value commercial activities in fishery and animal resource development sectors as revealed from the survey conducted in 2013. Secretary Fisheries & Animal Resource Development ( F&ARD) appraised this in the review meeting on enhancing sea food export held under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary Sri Aditya Prasad Padhi in secretariat conference hall today. Reviewing the progress on agenda of actions to achieve sea food export of worth Rs.20,000 cr within coming 5 years, Chief Secretary Sri Padhi directed to build the fishery infrastructure in such a manner that it generates more employment opportunities.
Secretary F& ARD Sri Bishnupada Sethi appraised the meeting about the urgent need for developing infrastructure to 19 priority aquaculture clusters. Taking stock of the works done till today, Chief Secretary Sri Padhi directed the executing agencies to expedite the power supply work to these clusters and complete those in various phases from December 2016 to March, 2017. It may be of worth mention here that 107 number of brackish aquaculture clusters have been identified in various places of the State mostly along the continental shelf. Out of this, 19 clusters have been taken up in first phase on priority basis. Chief Secretary directed to prepare a timeline for electrification of balance 88 clusters and complete the work within March, 2018. It was also decided to develop 468 kms of fish export related road infrastructure in the area. Forest department was directed to expedite the process of the issue of the certificates required for these linear projects of road and power connectivity.
Secretary F&RAD Sri Sethi appraised that State achieved the highest growth rate in the country in fish production during the year 2015-16. The growth rate was 11.10% in the year 2015-16. The total fish production during the year was 521278 MT against that of 469548 MT produced during 2014-15. Similarly, the export of fish and fishery product during the year went up to 35,630 MT with a total value of around Rs.1788Cr.
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