GUWAHATI: The Government of Germany, as part of its initiative to eradicate hunger and malnutrition across the globe, has reached out to the State of Assam to ensure food security and sustainable livelihood for the marginalized section of the society, stated a press release.
The German Government's vision of 'One World No Hunger', fast-tracked by its Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)), and realized by the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) through global programmes, is all poised to change the lives of the small and marginalized fish farmers of the State.
Training and capacity building of fish farmers in the State is the prime agenda for the organization as this approach will deliver a three-pronged advantage of enhanced income, food and nutrition security, and sustainable aquaculture to the farmers.
Focal person of GIZ in Assam, Jeherul Islam, on Monday inaugurated a residential training for fish farmers held under the aegis of GIZ-SAFAL at NGO Kalong-Kapili's Aquaculture Field School (AFS) at Bagibari in Sonapur.
Kalong-Kapili, which is one of the partner NGO's of GIZ in this ambitious project, will be training 55 fish farmers as Community Resource Persons (CRP) to disseminate scientific and sustainable fish farming methodologies in the rural areas of the State.
"These 55 fish farmers have been selected from the Farmer Producer Organization (FPOs) of Bokajan, Sootea, Naduar, Raha and Kathiatoli blocks. Following all the government mandated COVID-19 safety norms, these fish farmers will be trained at our AFS on scientific fish farming, capacity building, financial literacy, soft skills, IT, etc," informed Jyotish Talukdar, Director of Kalong-Kapili.
It is be noted that this training will span three phases of three-days, five-days and ten-days respectively. At the end of the training, these 55 CRPs will take their knowledge to other fish farmers in their areas.
A total of 27 FPO members were present on the first day of training, including nine female fish farmers.
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