Frozen farmed shrimp account for close to 70% of the total earnings of around Rs 46,500 crore of seafood export from India. After the lockd...

India produced more than 7,00,000 tonnes of shrimp in 2019 and exported more than 6,20,000 tonnes to the United States, European Union, Jap...

The US and South East Asia, particularly China, are the major buyers of Indian seafood.

Balasubramaniam said 2% interest subvention proposed for fish farmers and those hit by calamities will help the industry.

India was the top producer of aquaculture shrimps in the world last year with over 6 lakh tonnes and its seafood export stood around a reco...

India emerged the world’s top supplier of shrimps in 2017-18 with an output of 6 lakh tonnes.

Until a decade ago, the EU bloc was the main buyer of Indian marine products, primarily shrimps, accounting for as much as 35% of the count...

Shrimp production in India touched 6 lakh tonnes last year but is expected to slow down in 2018-19.

While prices of shrimp, which dominates the seafood export basket, are down by 20% from last year, fear of white spot disease and lower pri...

Sizes from 50 to even 120 counts are becoming popular. Most of the Southeast Asian countries are focusing more on farming small shrimps and...

Cultured shrimps, primarily the Vannamei variety, accounted for nearly 70% of the India’s seafood exports worth Rs 37,871 crore in 2016-17.

In the last two years, buoyant seafood exports have led to mushrooming of shrimp farms in several states while the output has gone up in th...

Seafood exports showed a decline in 2015-16 with a drop in prices of shrimp in the world market.

The improvement in shrimp prices in world markets has encouraged farms, mostly concentrated in Andhra Pradesh, to increase harvest.

Higher global prices for smaller-sized shrimps may lead to better production of aquaculture shrimps, which are the mainstay of the Rs 33,00...

At a record 3.53 lakh tonnes, farmed vannamei shrimps accounted for 67% of India's seafood export of Rs 33,441 crore in 2014-15.

Technical hurdles are hampering the import of live larval feed, an essential ingredient for the aquaculture shrimp production in the countr...