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www.benisonmedia.com INDUSTRY NEWS Centre Plans Shrimp

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Production Output Hub

in North-India

Image Source: World Aquaculture Society

The Union government is of saline wasteland unfit for Most shrimp is farmed in the
working on an aquaculture crops in 25 districts of Uttar country's coastal states.
plan worth INR 576 crore in Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana In India, shrimp farming has
four northern states to create and Punjab, marking out been supported by the
a hub of farming shrimp for clusters where shrimp World Bank, Food and
export and domestic aquaculture could be Agriculture Organization and
consumption by utilizing productive, one of the Asian Development Bank
land unsuitable for crops, persons said, seeking and the country is one of the
two officials with the anonymity. biggest exporters of cultured
knowledge of the matter The scientists found that shrimp. Indian seafood
said. productivity of the farmed sector is gearing up for
Over the past year, officials crustaceans or output per accelerated growth with both
and scientists from the hectare is roughly the same houses of Parliament passing
department of fisheries and in Haryana as the world the Coastal Aquaculture
the Central Institute of average at about 6-7 tonne, Authority (Amendment) Bill
Brackishwater Aquaculture making it potentially a major 2023, according to industry
tested thousands of hectares centre for shrimp farming. reports. The country is

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