Mpeda’s mud crab hatchery technology gets patent right till 2030

Mpeda -RGCA’s mud crab hatchery technology, the only just one of its kind in the state, has been granted patent by the Controller Basic of Patent, Layout and Emblems. The patent, an remarkable milestone in India’s aquaculture sector, has been granted from 2011 and will be legitimate till 2030.

The hatchery technology for mud crab (scientific title – Scylla serrata) that is in excellent need in South-East Asian nations around the world, where live crabs are really preferred as a delicacy, has been formulated by the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture, the research and enhancement arm of the Marine Products and solutions Export Development Authority.

Mpeda (Marine Products and solutions Export Development Authority) Chairman KS Srinivas stated the achievement is extraordinary in the background of Indian aquaculture as for the first time the Central Governing administration has granted a patent for this technology in the state. “It will go a long way in conference the seed requirement of farmers who intend to undertake diversified species for aquaculture as an alternative of concentrating on shrimp farming alone,” he stated.

Getting into account that there is no other hatchery for mud crab in India, RGCA had utilized for patent legal rights for the mud crab hatchery technology in 2011 with the Controller Basic of Patent, Layout and Emblems.

Retaining in perspective the huge need of mud crab, in particular in South-East Asian nations around the world, Mpeda had initiated a pilot task for mud crab seed (acknowledged as crab-instar) production during 2004 and subsequently built the commercial hatchery for the first time in India during 2013 with the capacity of just one million for each annum. Due to its increasing need, the seed production capacity of RGCA’s mud crab hatchery has been increased to 1.four million for each annum.

Srinivas stated the big achievement lies in increasing the survival price of crab instar from 3 for each cent earth report to seven for each cent. Further, the hatchery device is created in these types of a method that all sections are less than just one roof with entire bio-protection measures. So far, seven.28 million seeds have been produced and supplied to 659 farmers across the state.

RGCA has been set up to give a fillip to commercialisation of diversified aquaculture species these types of as sea bass, mud crab, Genetically Enhanced Farmed Tilapia (Gift), cobia, pompano and artemia. It focuses on increasing India’s marine solutions export by producing and giving excellent high quality seeds, which is a key enter for aquaculture.