ICAR-CCARI organises HRM sponsored online training programme on Evaluation of ecosystem services from coastal ecosystems: a hybrid approach

ICAR–CCARI organized an HRM-sponsored online training programme on “Evaluation of Ecosystem Services from Coastal Ecosystems: A Hybrid Approach” from 16 to 20 December 2025, which was attended by 42 participants (24 women and 18 men, including 6 SC and 2 ST candidates) comprising scientific and technical staff and research scholars from ICAR institutes, SAUs, and KVKs of the National Agricultural Research System, representing 11 states (6 coastal and 5 inland states including the northeastern region) and one Union Territory, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; the programme focused on capacity building for assessment and quantification of ecosystem services using hybrid methodologies across estuaries, mangroves, coral reefs, khazan land ecosystems, integrated farming systems, aquaculture systems, agro-forestry systems, agro-eco-tourism, and aqua-ecotourism, which provide vital provisioning, regulating, supporting, and cultural services essential for human well-being and environmental resilience, and participants appreciated the systematic conduct of the online training; in his remarks, Dr. Parveen Kumar, Director, ICAR–CCARI, encouraged participants to apply the acquired knowledge in ecosystem service analysis within their respective local ecosystems and urged collaboration with the institute in research and extension, while the programme was coordinated by Dr. Sreekanth G.B., Dr. Shripad Bhat, Dr. R.S. Rajkumar, and Dr. Paramesha V., with Dr. Sreekanth G.B., Course Director, proposing the vote of thanks and requesting participants to contribute to the coastal ecosystem services database, and technical support was provided by Smt. Pranjali Wadekar, Shri Vishwajeet Prajapati, and Dr. Subhradip Bhattacharjee.