Mpeda-RGCA’s mud crab hatchery technology, the only one of its sort in the state, has been granted patent by the Controller Normal of Patent, Design and Trademarks. The patent, an amazing milestone in India’s aquaculture sector, has been granted from 2011 and will be legitimate until 2030.
The hatchery technology for mud crab (scientific identify – Scylla serrata) that is in good demand from customers in South-East Asian international locations, wherever live crabs are really desired as a delicacy, has been created by the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture, the analysis and progress arm of the Maritime Merchandise Export Enhancement Authority.
Historical past of aquaculture
Mpeda (Maritime Products’ Export Enhancement Authority) Chairman KS Srinivas said the achievement is extraordinary in the history of Indian aquaculture as for the first time the Central Government has granted a patent for this technology in the state. “It will go a extensive way in assembly the seed need of farmers who intend to undertake diversified species for aquaculture as an alternative of concentrating on shrimp farming alone,” he said. Getting into account that there is no other hatchery for mud crab in India, RGCA had used for patent legal rights for the mud crab hatchery technology in 2011 with the Controller Normal of Patent, Design and Trademarks. But it was granted following a extensive and ardous approach. This was considering the fact that a variety of worldwide analysis establishments discussed the issue with authorities.
Expanding demand from customers
Preserving in perspective the large demand from customers of mud crab, specifically in South-East Asian international locations, Mpeda had initiated a pilot undertaking for mud crab seed (identified as crab-instar) manufacturing in the course of 2004 and subsequently designed the commercial hatchery for the first time in India in the course of 2013 with the potential of one million per annum. Due to its rising demand from customers, the seed manufacturing potential of RGCA’s mud crab hatchery has been enhanced to one.4 million per annum.
Srinivas said the main achievement lies in rising the survival charge of crab instar from three per cent globe record to 7 pe cent. Further, the hatchery device is created in this kind of a manner that all sections are less than one roof with finish bio-safety steps. So considerably, 7.28 million seeds have been produced and provided to 659 farmers throughout the state.
RGCA has been set up to give a fillip to commercialisation of diversified aquaculture species this kind of as sea bass, mud crab, Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia (Present), cobia, pompano and artemia. It focuses on rising India’s marine merchandise export by making and supplying good high quality seeds, which is a primary enter for aquaculture.