Marine products export body arm gets patent for mud crab hatchery tech

Conserving in view the massive demand of mud crab, notably in southeast Asia, MPEDA had initiated a pilot venture for mud crab seed (often called crab-instar) manufacturing in 2004.

Mud crab hatchery know-how, developed by the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture (RGCA), has acquired patent by the Controller Normal of Patents, Designs and Commerce Marks for 20 years from 2011 to 2030, which is about to spice up the expansion of the aquaculture sector.

The hatchery know-how for mud crab (scientific title – Scylla serrata), is far in demand in southeast Asian nations the place stay crabs are extremely most well-liked as a tasty seafood.

RGCA, the analysis and growth arm of the government-owned Marine Merchandise Export Improvement Authority (MPEDA), had utilized for the patent in 2011.

“It should go a great distance in assembly the seed requirement of farmers who intend to undertake diversified species for aquaculture as a substitute of concentrating on shrimp farming alone. MPEDA is dedicating this achievement to the aquaculture farmers of the nation for his or her assist and to the younger scientists of RGCA who’ve labored tirelessly to attain this morale-boosting feat,” MPEDA chairman KS Srinivas, who can also be president of RGCA, mentioned in a press release.

Conserving in view the massive demand of mud crab, notably in southeast Asia, MPEDA had initiated a pilot venture for mud crab seed (often called crab-instar) manufacturing in 2004. However, the industrial hatchery began solely in 2013 with a capability of 1 million species each year. Attributable to its rising demand, the seed manufacturing capability of RGCA’s mud crab hatchery has now been elevated to 1.4 million.

Srinivas additionally mentioned that the foremost achievement lies in growing the survival price of crab instar from 3% to 7%. Additional, the hatchery unit is designed in such a fashion that each one sections are underneath one roof with full bio-security measures. To this point, 7.28 million seeds have been produced and provided to 659 farmers throughout the nation.

RGCA was set as much as give a fillip to commercialisation of diversified aquaculture species resembling sea bass, mud crab, Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia (GIFT), cobia, pompano and artemia. It focuses on growing India’s marine merchandise export by producing and supplying good high quality seeds, which is a first-rate enter for aquaculture.