Manipur: Flood-affected farmers in five valley districts get lakhs of fish fingerlings

Manipur's fisheries department distributed lakhs of fish fingerlings to flood-affected farmers of five valley districts in the state at the office complex of the Directorate of Fisheries.

Officials informed that the Director of Fisheries, Heisnam Balkrisna Singh, along with fisheries officials distributed Pengba and Indian Major Carp fingerlings to about 200 flood-affected farmers of Imphal West, Imphal East, Bishnupur, Thoubal and Kakching districts.

The programme was conducted by the department of Fishery Government of Manipur in collaboration with ICAR – Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture Bhubaneswar under ICAR CIFA NEH outreach programme.

More than 1.88 lakh people have been affected and over 24,000 houses damaged, mostly in Imphal Valley, in floods in the last week of May as river embankments were breached following heavy rain triggered by Cyclone Remal.