SITA holds Brainstorming session on Livestock, Poultry, Dairy and Fishery sectors development in Assam

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Guwahati, July 2 (HS): A One Day Brainstorming session on Livestock, Poultry, Dairy and Fishery development in Assam organised by State Innovation and Transformation Aayog (SITA), Assam in association with Assam Agricultural University was held at the Assam Administrative Staff College, Guwahati today.

Dipok Kumar Barthakur, Vice Chairman, State Innovation and Transformation Aayog (SITA), Assam who attended as the Chief Guest inaugurated the session. Delivering a speech, Barthakur deliberated that the idea of this brainstorm is to make a critical analysis of the situation to boost the morale of the agrarian community to adopt animal husbandry and fishery as vibrant commercial activity in the state and to transform the backyard allied activities of animal husbandry into a lucrative proposition.

He said that all have a big role to play to make the state self sufficient in all the products of livestock and elaborated that there are very good scopes to double the farmers’ income and employment generation through animal husbandry and pisciculture which can be done by providing scientific inputs to the farmers, as well as in pisciculture also there is a scope for its development with vast resources in the form of large number of water bodies in the state. We need to give only the scientific strategies and good management plan to the farming communities, he added.

Others who spoke in the inaugural session includes V.S Bhaskar, Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of Assam and Dr K M Bujarbaruah, Vice Chancellor of Assam Agricultural University. The welcome address in the inaugural session was presented by Manijyoti Baruah, OSD to SITA, Assam.

The inaugural session was followed by the technical session to have a real brainstorm on the subjects which can put forward some actionable points for proper policy planning in the sectors.