A NFDB-sponsored five-day national training on Recent Trend on Feed and Feeding Strategy for Various Life Stages of Commercially Important Freshwater Fish from August 21 to 25 at the ICAR-CIFA here is underway. Inaugurating the programme, ICAR-CIFA Director Dr BR Pillai emphasised the production of cost-effective diet for different life stages of fish by using locally available feed ingredients. She also expressed that in order to increase the present fish production of 3.0 tons/ha to 6.0 tons/ha, supplementary feed is essentially required. She had advocated for the sustainable and eco-friendly aquaculture. Course Director Dr KN Mohanta opined that for doubling the income of fish farmer, the input optimisation is the need of hour. He also spoke about the different feeding strategies to be followed to reduce production cost and increase the profit margin. Programme Coordinator Dr KC Das gave the outline of the training program and ICAR-CIFA Principal Scientist Dr SC Rath offered a vote of thanks. Fisheries Department officials from the Government of Manipur, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar and Odisha and Officers from the other Central Governments, entrepreneurs, progressive fish farmers and the trainers from the Aqua Field School (AFS) participated.