ADMISSION NOTICE for AcSIR August 2023 academic session
-|- 20 February 2023CSIR- Integrated Skill Initiative "FERMENTATION TECHNOLOGY "
-|- 05 September 2022Inauguration of Seed distribution of Kappaphyucs seaweed to cultivators under PMMSY project
Kappaphycus alvarezii commercial farming along Tamil Nadu coast is very common practice that caters the livelihood option for coastal community. The coastal women are the factual choice for this practice because of their time management for both homemaking and a partial time allocation for farming work in the coast. The earning of fisherwomen from farming made self-sustain for their livelihood. However the two decades of this activity was curtailed due to seed scarcity to pursue the cultivation. This created the hindrance for entire farming activity and further down the revenue of cultivators. To resolve the issue of seed shortage, Ministry of Fisheries and animal husbandry & Dairying, Govt of India funded the project under PMMSY exclusively to produce the seed plant of Kappaphycus seaweed and distribute to seaweed cultivators. Growth of Kappaphycus was geared up from November 2021 and reached the biomass production of 215 tons fresh during the month of February-2022. The sizeable quantity of seed was proposed to distribute to the beneficiaries identified by the Department of fisheries and fishermen welfare, Tamil Nadu state. Fisheries Department, Ramanathapuram district has identified the beneficiaries cultivating seaweed. An inaugural function for seed distribution was organized on 23rd April-22 in the presence of District collector Ramanathapuram, District. Seed Kappaphycus was distributed to the selected beneficiaries by the district collector Shri. Sankar Lal Kumavat IAS at PV Pattinum, near Thondi. The remaining seed plant brought in six vehicle (Nearly 12 tons fresh) were dispatched directly to cultivation sites such as Therthandam, Dhamothrapattinum Mandampam. District collector also visited the seed farm at PV. Pattinum and interacted with the cultivators. He was interested to further strengthens the activity and impart skill development on seaweed farming to the women group in order to potentially use the coastal district of Ramanathapuram coast using the district fund.
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-|- 09 May 2022
Title of the Training Program: Microalgal Diversity and Their Biotechnological Potentials"
Duration : 14 to 16 December 2021
Last Date of Registration/Application: 20 November 2021
Last of Deposit Fees (for Selected Candidate only): 4 December 2021
(Online Transaction will only be allowed)
Worth Their Salt (E)
A mesmerising documentary that captures the amazing story of salt. It takes the viewers to the salt desert, the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat where the agariyas toil in their farms to produce salt. Their life is hard and the Rann is hostile. But they are the traditional salt farmers with their lives tuned to the seasonal dessert. Worth their Salt explores the work being done at the Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute in Bhavnagar. The one and only CSIR Institute dedicated exclusively to salt and salt technologies. Worth Their Salt details the research and technology development by the scientists who believe that they can and they must make a difference to the lives and sustainability of the agariyas. Several path breaking technologies are being developed here. A revolution is on its way with the possible fortification of Salt with Iron to beat Anaemia, a national challenge. Worth their salt is a documentary that has something for each of us, because for each of us Salt is vital.
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-|- 02 July 2021Training Program in “Theory and Practical Aspects of Household Solar Thermal Gadgets” on “Virtual / Online Mode” 12th July to 13th July 2021 and 15th July to 16th July 2021
-|- 11 June 2021Inauguration of the Seaweed Tissue Culture Laboratory
National Fisheries Development Board has sponsored the project pertaining to production of elite seedlings of Kappaphycus alvarezii to cater to the dearth of planting material to commercial seaweed growers. CSIR-CSMCRI has established seaweed Tissue Culture laboratory at our Marine Algal Research Station campus located at Mandapam Tamil Nadu. The inauguration ceremony has held on 29.03.2021 at 3 pm virtually at the hands of Dr. (Smt.) Suverna Chandrappagari, IFS, Chief Executive, National Fisheries Development Board, Hyderabad. Mr. Abhiram Seth, MD, Aquagri Processing (P) Ltd., New Delhi and Dr. CRK Reddy, CEO, Indian Center for Climate and societal Impact Research, Mandavi were invited gust for this function. On this occasion Dr. Kannan Srinivasan, Director, CSIR-CSMCRI gave felicitation address, while Dr. Arup Ghosh, Divisional Chair, Applied Phycology and Biotechnology has welcomed the delegates while, Dr. M. Ganesan, Senior Principal Scientist, MARS has conveyed the vote of thanks.
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Inauguration of the Seaweed Tissue Culture Laboratory
As the prelude to the ‘Inauguration of the Seaweed Tissue Culture Laboratory’ at CSIR-CSMCRI-Marine Algal Research Station, Mandapam. Scientists have distributed ‘elite tissue cultured plantlets to 50 commercial seaweed growers of Ramanathapuram District’ on 29.04.2021. Considering, covid appropriate behavior seedlings were distributed to only 20 fishermen in person, while to rest of 30 they were distributed at their respective seaweed farm. Heartiest congratulations to Dr. K. Eswaran and his team. Special appreciation to Dr. M. Ganesan for successful implementation of project for production of tissue culture progeny of Kappaphycus alvarezii
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CSIR Integrated Skill Initiative "on Seaweeds Cultivation and Field Demonstration"
-|- 23 February 2021