date:Apr 03, 2014
Porto Novo near here on Tuesday.
He further said that the shrimp export was a major forex earner. It had netted Rs 23,000 crore last year. Though major aquaculture farmers had quit the profession, small farmers had stepped in, that too in a big way. The share of the small farmers in exports was about 60 per cent. Mr Kandan noted that in the early 70s shrimp farming witnessed a boom as many big companies had then set up farms on even 100 hectares, TheHindu reports.
But in 1995 the outbreak of