Seafood Exporters Hope Business Will Pick Up
INDIA - As the US economy begins to recover, Mr Anwar Hashim President of the Seafood Exporters Association of India (SEAI) said that early signs of economic revival...

Government Plans To Treble Export Earnings
INDIA - The State Government has set an ambitious plan to increase the export earnings from marine and culture fisheries products by three times.

Ambitious Plan to Raise Output in Orissa by 2020
ORISSA, INDIA - The state government has a plan to boost production of dairy, fish and poultry products.

Shrimp Exports To EU Under Threat
INDIA - Aquaculture shrimp exports to European Union (EU) are under threat after a recent audit visit of Food and Veterinary Office of EU expressed dissatisfaction...

Trout Production Booms In Srinagar
INDIA - The production of trout has increased in the Kashmir Valley this year due to favourable weather conditions and an efficient breeding programme.

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,...