Varieties of fish and fish products are now available at finger tips. Samudram, a fisherwomen organisation producing value added fisheries items has developed its own website www.samudramodisha.com to promote its products.

We have been preparing, supplying and exporting fish products to different parts of the country. With development of the website, we hope our products will reach every nook and corner of the world, said advisor of Samudram B Chintiama.

Through this, we will receive orders from far off places in the country and abroad, organisation officials said and hoped marketing of the products would get a boost.

The organisation prepares frozen fish, dry fish, prawn pickle, fish pickle, fish papad and fish jhuri bhaji through its trained members. We have a trained workforce of marine fisherwomen. To produce these value added fisheries item, said secretary of the organisation M.Parvati.

All of them were trained under the guidance of experts of reputed fisheries institutes like Central Institute of Fisheries Education (CIFE), Mumbai, College of Fisheries of Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) and Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) of Central government, she said.

Established in 1995 as a network of 15 self-help groups from Ganjam and Puri districts, the organisation has now 4068 members of 308 SHGs across the state. The headquarter of the organisation is located at Katuru, a remote fishermen village in Ganjam district, while it operates in 21 blocks in six coastal blocks of the state.