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- [Viksit bharat](https://sundarbancifri.com/viksit-bharat/): Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan at Various Villages in Sunderbans Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan aligns with the broader national vision of Viksit Bharat@2047, which aims to transform India into a developed nation by 2047. As part of this flagship Farmer Awareness & Outreach Campaign, approximately 2,000 teams, comprising agricultural scientists, officials, and progressive farmers, visit villages across India daily to promote innovative farming techniques. As part of the VKSA 2025 initiative, ICAR-CIFRI conducted an interactive session at Haldarpara, Kultoli, engaging 100 selected farmers in practical demonstrations and discussions on integrated fish farming and soil-water interface techniques. This participatory event facilitated real-time […]
- [Model Village](https://sundarbancifri.com/model-village/): Model Village Project for Sustainable Livelihood in Sundarbans On April 26, 2025, ICAR-CIFRI, in collaboration with Kultoli Milan Tirtha Society and the State Bank of India, Kolkata Circle, launched a Model Village Project at Haldar Para, Uttar Mokamberia GP, Basanti Block, South 24 Parganas. The initiative, supported under SBI’s CSR programme, aims to enhance the livelihoods of 100 rural families in the Indian Sundarbans through backyard pond fish farming. The launch event featured an inaugural ceremony, beneficiary interaction, project site unveiling, and the distribution of fish farming inputs, 10 kg of fish seed and 120 kg of feed per beneficiary. […]
- [Publication](https://sundarbancifri.com/publication-2/): Publication   Bayen S, Sinha A, Aftabuddin Md, Roy A, Parida PK, Ghosh A and Das BK (2020). Developing mola (Amblypharyngodon mola) based fish culture practices for addressing livelihood and nutritional security of rural populace of Indian Sundarban. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies, 8(6): 359-364. https://www.entomoljournal.com/archives/2020/vol8issue6/PartE/8-5-210-920.pdf Ekka, Anjana, Arun Pandit, PK Katiha and DK Biswas. 2020. Economic value of ecosystem services of Gosaba estuarine ecosystem of Sundarbans. Journal of Inland Fisheries Society of India, 52(2): 157-163. http://dx.doi.org//10.47780/jifsi.52.2.2020.109940 Gogoi P, Das SK, Das Sarkar S, Chanum TN, Manna RK, Sengupta A, Raman RK, Samanta S and Das BK (2020). Environmental factors driving phytoplankton […]
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- [Socio Economic Profile](https://sundarbancifri.com/socio-economic-profile/): Socio Economic Profile Socio-Economic Profile of Fishing Communities in the Sunderbans The Sunderbans, with its unique biosphere and mangrove ecosystems, provides livelihoods to millions, despite its challenges such as natural calamities, infrastructural inadequacies and socio-economic vulnerabilities. A closer look into the diverse fisheries-related activities like canal fishing, dry fish processing, pond culture, tiger prawn seed collection and crab harvesting reveals the critical role played by these practices in sustaining the local communities. Canal Fisheries: Livelihood on Tidal Waterways   Demographics and Living Conditions The canal fishing community in the Sunderbans comprises predominantly male fishers, with family members often contributing to […]
- [Demonstration](https://sundarbancifri.com/demonstration/): Demonstration Brainstorming Session on Sunderbans at CIFRI [ICAR] Barrackpore, 3rd June, 2012 Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute (CIFRI), Barrackpore, organized a Brainstorming Session on “Sundarbans: Issues and Threats” to celebrate 15th Sundarban Day on 3rd June 2012. This Day is celebrated as birth day of Sir William Roxburgh, the foremost of the Botanists who worked extensively for the Sundarbans. Prof. A. P. Sharma, Director, CIFRI initiated the session with welcome address and outlined objectives of the event. Prof. Amalesh Chaudhury, Secretary, SD Marine Research Institute, Sagar Island and chairman of the session shared his experiences of working in Sundarban for […]
- [Mangroves](https://sundarbancifri.com/mangroves/): About 40 percent of the nearly 10,000 square kilometres (km2) of the Sunderbans lies within West Bengal and the rest part is in Bangladesh. Mangrove litter decomposition in Sunderbans ecosystems                Looking into the importance of mangrove leaf litter in regulating the sediment carbon sequestration and nutrient flux in Sunderbans ecosystem, a project was undertaken by ICAR-CIFRI at Jharkhali island of Sunderbans for determining the decomposition of different mangrove leaf litter.Seasonal litter fall was highest in Geon (Excoecaria agallocha). Litter from Avicennia group contained more nitrogen and carbon. Decomposition rates of various mangrove litters […]
- [Canal](https://sundarbancifri.com/canal/): Canal Total Canal area in West Bengal is 0.80 lakh ha (Mahapatra et al., 2015) Biotic Communities                 The assemblage of biotic community indicates the productivity of water body. Phytoplankton population, the biological wealth of an aquatic ecosystem (Boyd, 1972), responsible for wide assemblage of biotic community and regulate the food web (Falkowaski et al., 2008).  Zooplankton, being the primary consumer in food chain, plays an important role in transfer of energy to the higher trophic level. Zooplankton is also fed upon by many juvenile and adult zooplanktivorous fish species (Sommer et al., […]
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- [Publication](https://sundarbancifri.com/publication/): Publication Research paper Basu S, Chandra A, Gogoi P and Bhattacharyya S (2020). A multi-decadal comparative analysis of a set of physicochemical and nutrient parameters in the tropical tidal creeks of Indian Sundarban mangrove biosphere reserve. Thalassas: An International Journal of Marine Sciences, DOI: 10.1007/s41208-020-00273-1. BayenS, Sinha A, Aftabuddin Md, Roy A, Parida PK, Ghosh A and Das BK (2020). Developing mola (Amblypharyngodon mola) based fish culture practices for addressing livelihood and nutritional security of rural populace of Indian Sundarban. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies, 8(6): 359-364.   Gogoi P, Das SK, Das Sarkar S, Chanum TN, Manna RK, […]
- [Training](https://sundarbancifri.com/training/): Training Farmers’ Training Conducted Sl. No. Name of the training Date Venue No. of participants 1.        Inland Fisheries Management for Livelihood Improvement of Rural Populace of Sundarbans, West Bengal 05-08 September,2022 ICAR-CIFRI Barrackpore 24   Participations in Exhibitions/Mela Sl. No. Name of the Exhibition Date Venue   Kultoli Krishi o Sanskriti MelA, WB 28 February, 2022 Kultoli, WB ICAR-CIFRI conducted a NFDB sponsored skill development programme A skill development program was organized for 50 farmers of Sundarbans at ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore during 2-4August, 2018 on “Conservation and Culture of Small Indigenous Fishes for Livelihood and Nutritional […]
- [Livelihood Improvement Initiatives](https://sundarbancifri.com/livelihood-improvement-initiatives/): Livelihood Improvement Initiatives ICAR-CIFRI’s support to the fisher-folk community of Sunderbans CIFRI is engaged in upliftment of the rural populace residing in the remote areas of Indian Sunderbans through its continuous and consistent efforts. CIFRI has extended its support, both in the forms of technical guidance and fisheries input distribution, to the fishermen community under the centrally sponsored schemes like Scheduled Caste Sub Plan (SCSP) and Tribal Sub Plan (TSP), now known as Scheduled Tribe Component (STC). ICAR-CIFRI provided support to the SC and ST fishermen who mainly practise fisheries in the ponds through fisheries input distribution as well as […]
- [SCSP](https://sundarbancifri.com/scsp/): Scheduled Caste SubPlan Programme The main objective of the Scheduled Caste SubPlan is to give a thrust to the socio-economic development of the scheduled caste living below the poverty line, by providing fisheries inputs for filling the critical gaps for their livelihood improvement. ICAR-CIFRI is implementing SCSP schemes to empower SC community through the distribution of fisheries inputs and also imparting knowledge on inland fisheries.   Women’s empowerment through ornamental fisheries Ornamental fish culture was demonstrated for the livelihood improvement of the fishers of the SC community of Amatali and Kochukali of Sundarbans, West Bengal.  Seventy (70) ornamental culture kit and FRP […]
- [STC](https://sundarbancifri.com/stc/): STC Programmes in West Bengal Input Distribution and mass awareness program in Gosaba under TSP ICAR-CIFRI had organized two awareness camps in Sunderbans, West Bengal under Tribal Sub Plan (TSP) for the livelihoods enhancements of tribals through fisheries intervention. An awareness camp was organized for 600 tribal fishers in Amtoli village, Gosaba, Sunderban on 18-02- 2018. The awareness camp was aimed to explore the potential of unutilized canals in the area through community-based culture fisheries and to improve the fish production from the household ponds. The fishers were advised to utilize the canals of the village for fish production using […]
- [Newspaper](https://sundarbancifri.com/newspaper/): Newspaper 20.06.2023 20.06.2023 23.05.2023 23.05.2023 22.05.2023 21.05.2023 20.05.2023 20.05.2023 20.10.2022 11.10.2022 30.09.2022 17.09.2022 01.07.2022 21.06.2022 20.06.2022 20.06.2022 20.06.2022 03.02.2022 10.09.2021 08.09.2021 07.09.2021 10.08.2018
- [HOME](https://sundarbancifri.com/): Livelihood Improvement Initiatives in Sundarbans​ Previous slide Next slide Previous slide Next slide About Us Dr. B.K. Das, (Director, ICAR – CIFRI) Fisheries are the sole livelihood of fishermen and their families residing in Sundarbans. But presently fisheries in Sundarbans face some difficulties including pollution of the water bodies, intense cyclonic depressions, erosion, salinity alteration, etc. which have an impact on the biodiversity, sustainability, and livelihood of fisher folk viz. shrinking tiger prawn population, indiscriminate fish seed collection, and seizure of fish trawlers by Bangladesh navy. The distressed people for whom fisheries are the main source of livelihood are under […]


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