February 7, 2025

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‘Special seaweed park to be launched in TN on Nov 3’

A multi-goal unique financial zone for seaweed park will arrive up in Tamil Nadu as a pilot challenge to encourage seaweed cultivation in the region. The basis stone for it will be laid on November 3, reported L Murugan, Union Minister of Point out for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, on Friday.

Provisions have been built in the Budget for the park, which will deliver prospects to girls self-assist groups (SHGs) belonging to the fishermen group, reported the Minister during an interaction with the editors of The Hindu Team.

“Seaweed is employed in natural and organic urea and medications. In Japan, it is employed in dishes,” he reported.

The Centre has arrive up with the seaweed park proposal, as it is an rising sector with the probable to remodel the lifetime of coastal communities and deliver work in addition to added profits.

The Centre has proposed to deliver advantages to fishermen under the Kisan Credit history Cards (KCC) based on their ability. “We are having the regular running procedures (SOPs) ready,” he reported.

Fishing harbours

The Union governing administration plans to double maritime food items exports to five lakh tonnes above the following few many years and, toward this, it will modernise five fishing harbours matching world wide expectations. “Provisions experienced been built in the Budget for this. The ports will have services for export and cold storage,” reported Murugan.

Stating that the Centre aims to double fishermen profits under the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana, the Minister reported an allocation of ₹20,000 crore has been built to persuade fishermen to switch entrepreneurs.

Referring to the Rashtriya Gokul Mission, released for the development and conservation of indigenous cattle breed, Murugan reported the Centre was eager on modernising the animal husbandry sector and managing ailments. “Recently, the Cabinet has accredited just one lakh mobile veterinary clinics that will be offered to the States free of value,” he reported. To a problem on the reluctance on the element of cattle proprietors to vaccinate their herds against foot-and-mouth ailment, he reported the Centre would start a marketing campaign to spread awareness on vaccinating the cattle.

Dairy products

KCC is remaining prolonged to dairy farmers, much too, and the Centre would increase all assist to encourage dairy products and exports. “We want dairy products to be exported and quit imports. We need to have to reach self-sufficiency,” reported Murugan. To a problem on the deep-sea fishing plan that has built tardy development, he reported the plan would be involved as element of an “overall large scheme”.

On the fishermen’s grievance that the value of tuna longline vessel under the plan remaining mounted at ₹80 lakh was decreased than the vessel’s real value, Murugan reported it would be revised. “We questioned the Cochin Shipyard to evaluate the value. It has mounted the value of the vessel at ₹1.3 crore,” he reported.

The transformed value was remaining regarded and is awaiting technological approval, reported the Minister. The motive for the fishermen’s grievance is that the Centre offers fifty for each cent subsidy to SHGs and Fishers Producer Organisations to develop the longline vessels. Repairing a very low value for it implies they have to fork out a lot more from their pockets.

On the animal husbandry sector searching for cultivation of genetically-modified crops to meet the increasing desire, Murugan reported he would go by the industry’s calls for. The Minister reported opposition to the Indian Marine Fishermen Bill, 2021, handed by Parliament during the monsoon session, was “politically motivated”. The Bill experienced diluted some of the penal provisions against fishermen in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, he reported.

“It (invoice) does not affect any fishermen. States can act against any international intrusion only up to 12 nautical miles. After that, they can not consider any motion. Beneath the new regulation, intruding vessels can be detained and fined up to ₹40 lakh,” he reported.

Farm legal guidelines

On protests against the farm legal guidelines by farmer associations and Opposition events, Murugan reported they had been confined only to Punjab, elements of Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh. “Have farmers in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka or Madhya Pradesh protested? Vested passions are behind these protests,” he reported.

The Minister reported the Meals Company of India would keep on to procure under the least aid value programme.