Artemia, commonly known as Brine shrimp, is a unique cosmopolitan anostracan (Class Branchiopoda) living in hypersaline and saline lakes, lagoons and man-made salterns with salinity levels ranging from 10 to 340 g/l.

Artemia is one of the best Live-feed that has revolutionized Aquaculture industry and used for more than 85 % of Aquaculture hatcheries, mainly shrimp hatcheries.

Annual harvests from Great Salt Lake, Utah were in the order of 2000 tonnes of dry cyst making up more than 90 percent of the world's cyst market.

A. franciscana (bisexual species) is now commonly available in Indian saline water bodies for the past two decades whereas the native Artemia species, A. parthenogenetica (asexual species) is rarely found.

The cyst produced from RGCA's units has good hatching rate of 90-95%. RGCA also supplies Dried Artemia Flakes and Decapsulated Artemia cyst.

RGCA is providing hands-on training in Artemia cyst and biomass production to improve the Socio-economic status of coastal communities, Women Self-help Groups, salt farmers and interested entrepreneurs.