Fish farming in Paddy Fields Takes Off
INDIA - Fish cultivation along with paddy in paddy fields is gaining popularity as it brings financial benefit to the farmers of the Kurigram district of Bangla...

Low Premium Insurance For Aquaculture
INDIA - The National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) is working out modalities with insurance companies to introduce an insurance cover for fish and shrimp stocks...

India to Start White Prawn Production
INDIA - The National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) has announced that white prawn cultivation is to begin in February.

Indian Black Tiger Shrimps Promotion
INDIA - The Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) has signed an Agreement for Promotion of Indian Black Tiger Shrimp including the Co-Branding Agreement...

India's Shrimp Exports Hit by EU Rejections
INDIA - The Indian marine products export sector is facing the threat of a substantial fall in export volume as the rate at which the European Union (EU) has been...

Manipur Fish Farmers Call for Drought Relief
MANIPUR, INDIA - Although the Government of India declared some parts of the country including the North eastern states drought affected no programme for fishermen...

Tough EU Measures Sink Indian Seafood Exports
INDIA - Faced with a spate of export rejections and slack demand, the Indian production of scampi or the freshwater shrimp has registered a 53 per cent fall to 12,806...

FTA with ASEAN May Have Adverse Effect
INDIA - The Kerala Swathanthra Malsyathozhilali Federation (KSMTF) and Focus on the Global South, a regional research and campaign group, said that the Central Government’s...

Indian Fish Festival Inaugurated at Hyderabad
INDIA - Agriculture and Food Minister Shri Sharad Pawar reiterated the Government’s high focus on the fisheries sector and said that the Government was exploring...

US Set Anti-Dumping Tariff
INDIA - The US Department of Commerce settled the final rates of the third administrative review of anti-dumping duty imposed on shrimp and prawns imported from...

Three Year Plan to Improve Aquaculture
INDIA - Union Minister for Agriculture and Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Sharad Pawar has called on the fish producing states to set out a plan...

India Sees Imports to Europe Fall
INDIA - The financial crisis in Europe hit shrimp consumption last year and this could have serious implications for Indian seafood exports.

Indian Seafood Exports Fall 1.4 Per Cent
INDIA - India's seafood exports are down 1.4 per cent in U.S. dollar terms to $1.71 billion between April 2008 and February 2009 compared to the same time in the...

Indian Industry Demands New Shrimp
INDIA - An outbreak of white spot disease wiped out 40-60 per cent of Kerala’s ready-to-harvest shrimp in the first week of May

Indian Fish Farms Get Intensive with $123 Million
INDIA - Technologies for intensive aquaculture could be used to improve fish yields in more than 800,000 hectares of water.

India Relieved of US Shrimp Duties
INDIA - Giving a major relief to the Indian shrimp exporters, the US Customs & Border Protection (CBP) has recently withdrawn the customs bond requirement imposed...

New Fish Feed Sees Strong Asian Demand
INDIA - Yeo Keng Joon, who heads Bharat Luxindo, is cautiously upbeat about business prospects despite the weakening global economic climate.

Kuttanad Convert Paddy Fields to Scampi Farms.
KERALA, INDIA - If the paddy cultivation, be it organic or non-organic, were a viable proposition, the paddy farmers in Kerala’s granary, Kuttanad, would not have...

Model Markets Help India Squeeze Fish Profits
INDIA - The Indian government has set itself a new target - to increase fish production by 50 per cent in just three years.

Chennai Welcomes a New Wave of Fish Farmers
CHENNAI, INDIA - With a target to increase the country’s fish production to over 10 million tonnes (mt) by the end of the 11th Plan from the current 6.5 mt,...

Haryana Hooked on Fish Production
INDIA - The Haryana farmers are increasingly getting hooked to fishery as a major source of employment and income supplement as the fish production growth rate...

Research Keeps Indian Aquaculture Afloat on Top
INDIA - The Indian aquaculture is striving thanks to beneficial developments made by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research last year.

India's Marine Exports Down in 2008
INDIA - The global financial meltdown seems to have taken its toll on the export of marine products from India with the business recording a 10 per cent slump...

Call for Boost to Aquaculture
INDIA - India's state governments have been urged to set aside more land for aquaculture enterprises because of teh tremendous employment opportunities they hol...

India Gets Technical in Bid to Boost Aquaculture
INDIA - Chief Regional Manager of Indian Overseas Bank Geetha P. Shetty has stressed the need for adopting innovative technologies in aquaculture to tap its huge...