“Riding the waves of Prosperity”: Aquaculture transforming people’s Lives
Shlok Nemani
Research fellow at MRC
Key Highlights
- Aquaculture and Agriculture can go hand in hand, boosting the overall cultivation sector.
- In India, aquaculture requires huge investment in terms of skill assistance for the farmers, as most of the population of farmers are unfamiliar with cultivation procedures.
- Uplifting poor sections of society can be done by opening new job opportunities and aquaculture is one such industry to go with.
Economic Demography of India
‘Without farmers, no country can progress’
Such a statement is strictly true for a country with a significantly high contribution from farming activities to the nation’s GDP. Agriculture is the dominant sector of India, in terms of the number of citizens involved directly or indirectly with agricultural activities. Not only in economic terms (Gross Domestic Product) but also Agriculture is supporting India socially by providing a stable source of income to more than 50% of India’s current workforce. It is an important point to ponder upon how the climatic variabilities and climate change are going to affect the agriculture sector and what will be the short-term and long-term impacts of such scenarios. To mitigate such effects, by reducing the dependence on only agriculture, aquaculture and/or aquafarming provides a wide range of opportunities in Indian waters and have the potential that can be harnessed to diversify crops to aquatic plants and marine creatures.
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Shlok Nemani
Research fellow at MRC
Shlok Nemani is a fourth-year student, in the Department of electrical engineering, at IIT Bombay. He has worked as an intern at Texas Instruments, and Maritime Research Center in his third year of study. He is currently doing a fellowship at the Maritime Research Center where he is working on developing technological solutions for sustainable expansion of aquaculture. His projects span through the concepts in Cryptology and hardware.