Start-Up conference on Ecoprawn held

Business Desk :
A start-up conference on Ecoprawn held with all the Bangladeshi and Danish partners including owners of the prawn hatcheries and processing centers, traders, importers and researchers of this field. Moreover, the eminent scientists and experts from Universities, Department of Fisheries (DoF), BFRI, World Fish and the Danish Embassy will share their views and practical experiences of prawn farming during the conference held at City Inn Hotel, Khulna recently.
Professor Dr. Abul Kasem Chowdhury, Vice-Chancellor of Khulna Agricultural University was the chief guest while Dr. Max Nielsen was the guest of honor of the program. Country Coordinator of ECOPRAWN project Professor Badiuzzaman of Patuakhali Science and Technology University (PSTU), chaired the programme. Dean of the Post Graduate Studies of PSTU, Deputy Director of DoF, Khulna, were present as the special guests. The project is on Climate-friendly and climate-resilient prawn farming in Bangladesh (ECOPRAWN)’, a DANIDA funded multidisciplinary research project in collaboration with Patuakhali Science and Technology University (PSTU), Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Bangladesh and University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark. The project aims at improving prawn farms resilience and adaptive capacities to climate changes. More specifically, project objectives are examining GHG (CO2 and methane) emission from prawn ponds, methods for controlling seawater-induced prawn diseases, examining economic feasibility and improving value chain governance.
The project will help early career researchers who have just completed their PhD with generous funding from DANIDA through earlier BANGFISH project in capacity building by working together with senior researchers from UCPH, BAU and PSTU. The BANGFISH project was organized, managed and successfully completed by the same research team with around 30 peer reviewed scientific publications, several trainings, policy briefs, conferences and scientific workshops.