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| About FDB |
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| Fisheries Development Board (FDB) is
set up .... |
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| ...to provide and maintain a platform
for enhancing and promoting fisheries
sector in Pakistan, where the
participants, professionals and
intermediaries may discuss issues of
common interest, identify new solutions
that enhance the efficiency of that
sector, initiate development programs,
promote regional and global integration
and to undertake activities in Pakistan
and / or abroad for any or all of the
purposes for which the company has been
established and in pursuance of its
objects, which are: |
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- To plan, promote, facilitate and
coordinate with private sector for accelerated
development of and investment in the fisheries
sector in Pakistan
- To promote and facilitate measures to
improve the marketing of and also to promote
and facilitate producer-owned and controlled
organizations for fish, shrimps and marine
food products within Pakistan and the export
thereof, without indulging in such business.
- To promote, facilitate and support the
development and dissemination of appropriate
aquaculture technologies for smallholders in
Pakistan, and to undertake capacity building
of all stakeholders in the fisheries sector.
- To promote and facilitate methods for
improved aquaculture in order to ensure and
enhance human nutrition through the promotion
of locally produced fish and shrimps products.
- To promote aquaculture in Pakistan as the
primary vehicle for poverty alleviation
amongst small and land-less farmers with
special emphasis on the empowerment of women,
and in doing so:
- to identify livelihood opportunities
and thereby increase income levels through
aquaculture activities; and
- to develop support systems for those
engaged in aquaculture production,
particularly small-scale farmers in rural
areas.
- To provide scholarships to students and
professional trainees, including but not
limited to the supply of books, stipends,
medals, prizes, grants, scholarships, awards,
educational career support, educational loans
and other incentives for purposes of the
advancement of knowledge, education and
literacy both within and outside Pakistan.
- To provide a platform for research and
development relating to objects of the
company.
- To conduct, coordinate, facilitate and
organize training courses and provide training
tools, materials, methodologies and facilities
and undertake development projects and
training workshops for staff, associates,
beneficiaries of member organizations.
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