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According to the statement, Dr Likhi urged the ICAR-CIFRI and different stakeholders to instrumentality steps for making these drone-based applications scope food farmers. He besides asked the fisheries section to papers the demonstrations and nonstop them to the ministry truthful that they tin beryllium utilised to make consciousness among food farmers.
Fisheries Secretary Dr Abhilaksh Likhi visited the Kolkata-based ICAR- Central lnland Fisheries Research Institute (CIFRI) Tuesday and reviewed the probe and improvement activities of the institute regarding drone exertion for fisheries management.
The reappraisal is important arsenic the Fisheries Department has assigned a aviator task connected “Developing drone exertion for unrecorded food transport” to ICAR-CIFRI, aiming to plan and make a 100-kg payload drone carrying unrecorded food up to 10 km, said a connection by the Ministry of Fisheries.
“Different drone-based technologies viz. sprayer drone, provender broadcast drone and cargo transportation drone were demonstrated by ICAR-CIFRI and start-up companies among much than 100 fishermen and fisherwomen. The aviator task undertaken by ICAR-CIFRI volition unfastened a caller skyline successful the fisheries conception by providing an effectual and promising alternate for transporting caller food with little clip and minimum quality engagement portion minimising accent to the fish,” it said.
According to the statement, Dr Likhi urged the ICAR-CIFRI and different stakeholders to instrumentality steps for making these drone-based applications scope food farmers. He besides asked the fisheries section to papers the demonstrations and nonstop them to the ministry truthful that they tin beryllium utilised to make consciousness among food farmers.
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ICAR-CIFRI Director Dr B K Das presented the institute’s achievements and advancement made successful drone-based technologies, it said.
The probe and improvement connected food proscription utilizing drone exertion with backstage concern would besides alteration consumers and farmers to person amended hygienic caller food successful the proviso concatenation system, it said.
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