| Title of Project |
Name of PI |
Start Year |
Year of Completion |
|
Sustainable Livelihood Promotion through Integrated Farming System (IFS)
in Scheduled Tribal (ST) Dominated Area of Central Brahmaputra Valley of Assam.
|
Dr. Bipul Phukan |
2018 |
2021 |
|
Creation and enhancement of fisheries alternative livelihood through
community based cage culture in selected beels in Nagaon and
Morigaon districts of Assam.
|
Dr. Pradyut Kumar Goswami |
2013 |
2016 |
|
A pilot project on sustainable development of large water bodies
as well as small and medium category beels in Tinsukia district,
by adopting Participatory Integrated Management.
|
Dr. Pradyut Kumar Goswami |
2011 |
2012 |
|
A pilot project on sustainable development of large water bodies
as well as small and medium category beels in Darrang district.
|
Dr. Pradyut Kumar Goswami |
2007 |
2011 |
|
A pilot project on cage aquaculture.
|
Dr. Pradyut Kumar Goswami |
2007 |
2008 |
|
A pilot project on training cum field level demonstration of cage
aquaculture for the women SHG, Samaguri, Nagaon.
|
Dr. Pradyut Kumar Goswami |
2004 |
2005 |
Salient Achievements
-
Successful domestication and creation of Live Gene Bank of
Wallago attu, Channa aurantimaculata & Rita rita has been done.
A farm stock is ready for analysis on different aspects of biology.
-
Successful domestication of 15 numbers of different Small Indigenous
Fishes (SIF) of riverine origin.
-
Formulated and developed species specific feed for both
Wallago attu, Channa aurantimaculata & Rita rita.
-
1st draft of Directory of Indigenous Fin Fishes of Assam has been published.
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Under the DBT funded project "Sustainable Livelihood Promotion through
Integrated Farming System in Schedule Tribal (ST) dominated areas of
Central Brahmaputra Valley of Assam" two technologies viz.
Pig cum Fish Culture and Poultry cum Fish Culture has been transferred
to 50 nos. of farming families from Nagaon and Morigaon district.
-
Conservation of Aquatic Biodiversity. Ed. B. Phukan, S. Baishya,
P. C. Bhuyan, K. K. Tamuli, K. Bhagawati, Monoj Das.
Published on the occasion of Launching Workshop on
"Scientific Conservation Programme for Indigenous Fish",
First Edition February 2020, ISBN-978-93-84679-89-7.
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Development of Low cost Bamboo Cages for wetlands of Assam under
the project "Creation and Enhancement of Fisheries Alternative
Livelihood through Community Based Cage Culture in Selected Beels
in Nagaon and Morigaon Districts of Assam" funded by NFDB,
Govt of India.
-
Metagenomical studies on riverine ecology (Freshwater ecosystem)
is being conducted on River Manas and selected wetlands of Assam.
-
Described 12 Orders, 29 Families, and 190 fish species from
Brahmaputra and Barak Valley collected, identified using
classical/molecular tools; for 120 species, barcoding has been generated.
Vol. 1 of the 'Directory of Indigenous Fishes' has been published.
-
First record of Garra substrictorostris (Roni & Vishwanath, 2018)
from the River Manas, Assam.
-
First record of Osteobrama vigrosis (Sykes, 1839) from the
Brahmaputra River drainage, Assam.
-
Description of a new species Neonoemacheilus lachitensis
(Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae), using an integrative approach.
-
Molecular systematics, species delimitation, and population
genetic structure of Danionidae in the Brahmaputra basin.
-
DNA-based taxonomic resolution and phylogenomic inference of
Garra assemblages from the Brahmaputra River network.
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Domesticated and created Live Gene Bank for indigenous fishes namely
Hemibagrus menoda, Wallago attu, Channa aurantimaculata,
Mystus cavasius, Mystus vittatus, Channa striata,
and Channa marulius.
-
Developed induced breeding protocols of the indigenous fish
Mystus cavasius, Mystus vittatus, and Macrognathus aral.
-
Environmental DNA-based freshwater biodiversity studies on
the River Manas and selected wetlands of Assam.
-
First report on the occurrence, distribution, and trophic transfer
of microplastics across environmental and biological matrices
in the Brahmaputra River basin.
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Pioneering eco-modelling-based characterization of wetland
ecosystem health and functioning in Assam.
*All the contents were provided by Dr. Debojit Dekari,CFSc,Raha.
