Nitish asks fishermen to adopt new techniques

Pledging to usher in a rainbow revolution in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday identified fisheries as a key sector for growth and asked fishermen to adopt new techniques to increase output.

Addressing an event on the occasion of ‘Fisherman Day’, he said the state government has launched an agriculture roadmap to usher in rainbow revolution in Bihar in which animal husbandry, fishery and hatchery have been identified as sectors for growth in addition to traditional farm activities. Fishery in particular has tremendous potential for growth, Kumar said and asked fishermen to employ new techniques to increase production.

Bihar used to produce 2.68 lakh metric tonne of fish in 2004-05 which was not adequate to meet the domestic demand and was met by supplies from Andhra Pradesh.

“Our fishermen then did not employ new techniques to enhance production of fisheries,” he said adding the state government agriculture roadmap of 2008 identified fishery as a key sector for growth.