Union Minister for Earth Sciences Kiren Rijiju said that the fisheries and aquaculture sector is going to play a key role in the growth of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
He said there are enormous opportunities for the development of the fisheries sector in Andhra Pradesh which has a long coastline.
Mr. Kiren Rijiju was speaking at the Mega Awareness Campaign on Ocean Information and Advisory Services organised by Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Hyderabad in collaboration with M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) at Machilipatnam of Krishna district on Friday. It was the first of the five campaigns planned by INCOIS on the western and eastern coasts of the country under the Azadi Ka Amrit programme.
