date:Jul 07, 2012
lture and fisheries - both inland and marine - resources which need to be further explored and harnessed.
For this to happen, the fisheries sector needs professionally educated and trained manpower. In this context, Pawar informed that as against about 5,000 graduates available presently, this sector would need about 30,000 graduates by 2020, as estimated by a recent study. Therefore, the need of the hour is to raise competent and skilled human resources for growth of fisheries sector, he said.