India’s total aquaculture production reached 106,000 tonnes and exports also increased, according to the Marine Products Exports Development Authority (MPEDA).<\/p>\n
The country’s production and exports are again expected to climb this year as more coastal farms embark upon white shrimp (Penaeus vannamei<\/em>) farming projects, said Anwar Hashim, national president of the Seafood Exporters Association of India (SEAI).<\/p>\n However, production in coastal aquaculture fell to 88,803 tonnes with an estimated value of INR 19.1 billion (\u20ac329.3 million\/$402 million), according to MPEDA. Aquaculture spanning 108,000 hectares bred 75,997 tonnes of shrimp.<\/p>\n The decline was around 28.4% in production and 10.9% in area compared to the previous year .<\/p>\n Freshwater shrimp production was 12,806 tonnes from an aquaculture area of 1,644 hectares during the year, representing a 53% fall in production and 63% in area use. The drop in production was attributed to the global economic recession, which saw lower international seafood prices, particularly for shrimp, said MPEDA.<\/p>\n In addition, the profitability and production of Indian black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon<\/em>) is being adversely impacted by competition from cheaper vannamei farmed in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and other Asian countries, the authority said.<\/p>\n India mainly produces black tigers and processing plants are currently running at just about 30% capacity.<\/p>\n Monodon are more expensive to raise yet have lower yields than vannamei. According to SEAI, the cost of production for vannamei is $2.29 (\u20ac1.87) per kg, or half that for black tigers.<\/p>\n Farmers can raise 20 tonnes of small-to-medium vannamei per hectare versus 2-3 tonnes of large monodon per hectare.<\/p>\n Also the survival rates in most black tiger farms are only around 40% due to the species being prone to disease. The survival rate of vannamei is around 95-98%.<\/p>\n The price of black tigers are at least 15% higher than vannamei in the global market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aquaculture production in India grew by more than 30% during the 2009-10 financial year mainly due to higher output in the Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3305,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions\/3305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}