Celebrating FAO Global Recognition for SAIME

Celebrating FAO Global Recognition for SAIME (Sustainable Aquaculture in Mangrove Ecosystem) 🦐🌿
To celebrate the Global Technical Recognition 2025 received from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), NEWS organized a special felicitation ceremony on January 28, 2026, at Chaital, Minakhan.

The event was graced by:

🔹 Shri Biplab Roy Chowdhury, Hon’ble Fisheries Minister, Govt. of West Bengal

🔹 Prof. G.N. Chattopadhyay, Emeritus Professor, Seacom Skills University

🔹 Dr. Debasis De, Principal Scientist & Head, Kakdwip Research Centre-CIBA

🔹 Prof. Prasanta K. Biswas, Jadavpur University

🔹 Officials from Chaital Gram Panchayat

The SAIME farmers were felicitated with a certificate of appreciation (manpotro) and uttariyo for championing the SAIME model.

All guests including the Fisheries Minister, highlighted the significance of this climate-adaptive and ecosystem-based sustainable aquaculture and thanked the SAIME farmers and NEWS for developing and propagating this model in the Indian Sundarban.

Here are a few glimpses of the event: