Fish fair to be held each Emoinu Festival: Fishery Minister Heikham Dingo
IFP Bureau30 Dec 2022
The first Emoinu Fish Fair will be on January 3, 2023 at Hapta Kangjeibung.
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The first Emoinu Fish Fair will be on January 3, 2023 at Hapta Kangjeibung.
The successful selling of fresh Sareng in the fair is an outcome of the Sareng Project launched in 2021 under the initiative of Chief Minister N Biren Singh with the aim to revive the Meitei Sareng which was already extinct.
Manipur Fishery Minister H Dingo Singh said the department is aiming to put up for sale around 1 lakh kg of different varieties of fish during the 44th Fish Fair cum Fish Crop Competition to be held on Wednesday at Haptta Kangjeibung.
IFP Editorial: Even the price of imported Sareng is high as compared to other imported fish varieties and the price range was Rs 350 to 450. In organising feasts, only the rich families are able to include Sareng in the menu while most others go for Grass Carp.
IFP Editorial: The Fish farmers JAC said the minister had given an assurance that the fund will be released soon. We hope, the assurance is not a ruse to make them participate in the fish fair and avoid an embarrassment.
Around 254 cooperative societies had come together and decided to stay away from the annual fish fair, citing non-payment of NCDC subsidies.
If the Manipur chief minister and fisheries are really serious about increasing production in the state, their first priority should be the welfare of the fish farmers.
All registered 254 fish farmers of Bishnupur, Imphal East, Imphal West and Kakching will not join the Ningol Chakouba fish fair if the state government fails to release the fund of National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) by November 4.
The Fishery minister announced prices of fish to be sold at the Fish Fair-cum-Fish Crop Competition on November 5
A one-day fish fair-cum-fish crop competition will be held on November 16.