date:Apr 08, 2014
011-12 these were 862,021 tonne and Rs 16,597.23 crore respectively.
MPEDA now targets earnings of $10 billion by 2020.
This promising performance was due to two major factors - serious fall in the production and export of shrimp from South East Asian countries and the lowering of countervailing duty [CVD] on Indian shrimp in USA.
Production in South East Asian countries had been affected badly due to the spread of a disease called Early Mortality Syndrome [EMS]. Supply from Thailand, world's