An eight-day national training on Freshwater Pearl Culture for Entrepreneurship Development, organised by the Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA) Kausalyaganga, Bhubaneswar, is underway here starting from Wednesday.
The programme, which was inaugurated by CIFA Director Dr P Jayasankar, imparts training to farmers, entrepreneurs, researchers, SMSs from Krishi Vigyan Kendra, professionals and students. Addressing the inaugural function, Jayasankar emphasised on the importance of freshwater pearl farming in the country and how to develop entrepreneurship through this. Social Science head Dr GS Saha also stressed on the need for up-scaling HRD programme on pearl culture. Besides, a bilingual training manual on Freshwater Pearl Culture for Entrepreneurship Development was released and distributed to the participants on the occasion.