Project overview
Our consortium of nine research institutes and universities in India, the UK and Bangladesh worked with farmers in India and Bangladesh to identify existing best practice.
Their experience was used to formulate new guidelines to disseminate throughout farming communities across Asia. This ultimately resulted in the development and launch of the Chingri mobile phone app – to support Bengali farmers in growing shrimp crops and identifying disease outbreaks pond side.
We also developed new understanding of host pathogen interactions, in the hope of developing novel intervention methods with which to tackle infection in the future.
Funding for this research was provided through the Newton Global Research Partnership in Aquaculture, representing the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) India, the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences and the Economic and Social Research Councils (BBSRC and ESRC), the Newton-Bhabha Fund and UK Aid.
Their experience was used to formulate new guidelines to disseminate throughout farming communities across Asia. This ultimately resulted in the development and launch of the Chingri mobile phone app – to support Bengali farmers in growing shrimp crops and identifying disease outbreaks pond side.
We also developed new understanding of host pathogen interactions, in the hope of developing novel intervention methods with which to tackle infection in the future.
Funding for this research was provided through the Newton Global Research Partnership in Aquaculture, representing the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) India, the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences and the Economic and Social Research Councils (BBSRC and ESRC), the Newton-Bhabha Fund and UK Aid.
Staff
Lead researchers
Research outputs
Luca Peruzza, M. S. Shekhar, K. Vinaya Kumar, A. Swathi, K. Karthic, Chris Hauton & K. K. Vijayan,
2019, Scientific Reports, 9(1)
Type: article
Christopher Hauton,
2017, Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 147, 111-117
Type: article