Social Innovation team from Sahyadri visited ‘Aquacult Shrimp farm, Mangalore’ to understand the problems of shrimp farming
18-Jan-2021
As part of the Social Innovation Program, Mr. Gautham Nayak, Program Head, Centre for Social Innovation, Mr. Gouse Khan, Manager NAIN, Mr. Prajwal Shetty and Mr. Thilak V S, Final Year students of Mechanical Engineering and Ms. Abhinaya, Final year student of Information Science and Engineering visited Aquacult Shrimp farm, Mulki,Mangalore on 16th Jan, 2021.
The team interacted with Mr. Yash Raj, Founder, Aquacult Shrimp farm, regarding the Social Innovation Program and the facilities available on campus which could nurture ideas to solve industry defined problem statements. Mr. Yash explained the process of shrimp culturing and the problems faced by the aquaculture farmers. He also stressed the need for developing monitoring devices that could help in effective data collection of the important parameters pertaining to shrimp farms. The team has collected valuable insights and received problem statements from the shrimp farm to improve the current monitoring systems for efficient shrimp culture.
