Ranchi: Jharkhand is rapidly emerging as India's freshwater pearl farming hub, with the state government and Centre implementing comprehensive training programmes and infrastructure development to ...

Pearl farming, once associated mainly with oceans and coastal regions, is now emerging as a new source of livelihood in smaller Indian cities, with innovative farmers turning waterlogged land into ...

Why exactly do little white nuggets from the sea cost so much? And how have humans hacked the biological process that makes them? Pearls. Humans have prized them for so long that the very word itself ...

Despite a $28.4 million allocation to fisheries, a leading pearl farming operator says the Budget fails to introduce ...

Pearl farming has helped to lift a seaside village out of poverty in South China's Guangdong province. Nanzhu, or south pearl in English, refers to the pearls produced in the Beibu Gulf off the coast ...

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According to researchers at Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BRFI), more than 150 pearl farmers in 90 upazilas under 41 districts of the country are currently engaged in cultivating about 6,00 ...