{"id":289435,"date":"2024-04-04T18:30:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=289435"},"modified":"2024-04-04T18:30:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T13:00:32","slug":"shrimp-farming-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/shrimp-farming-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrimp farming in India"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source<\/strong>– This post on Shrimp farming in India<\/strong> is based on the article “India dismisses allegations of abusive conditions at shrimp farms<\/strong><\/a>” published in “The Hindu<\/strong>” on 4th April 2024.<\/p>\n

Why in the News?<\/h2>\n

Recently, a human rights organization based in Chicago has accused India of human rights and environmental violations in the shrimp farming sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shrimp farming<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shrimp farming is the practice of cultivating shrimp in controlled environments<\/span> such as ponds, tanks, or enclosures, typically in marine or freshwater settings. This is done through aquaculture methods to produce shrimp for human consumption.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

About Shrimp Farming in India<\/h2>\n
\"Shrimp
Source- Seafood watch<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1.<\/strong> Second Largest producer<\/strong>– India is the second-largest producer of Whiteleg Shrimp<\/span> (Litopenaeus vannamei).<\/p>\n

2. Top Exporter to US- <\/strong>India has become one of the world’s top shrimp exporters. Its share in the U.S. market increasing from 21% to 40% in 2022-23.<\/p>\n

3.<\/strong> Shrimp dominates seafood exports<\/strong>– In 2022-23, Out of the $8.09 billion exported seafood, shrimp’s share was $5.6 billion.<\/p>\n

4. Top producing State- <\/strong>Andhra\u00a0Pradesh<\/span> alone account for almost 70% of India\u2019s shrimp output.<\/p>\n

UPSC Syllabus- Indian Economy (Agriculture)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– This post on Shrimp farming in India is based on the article “India dismisses allegations of abusive conditions at shrimp farms” published in “The Hindu” on 4th April 2024. Why in the News? Recently, a human rights organization based in Chicago has accused India of human rights and environmental violations in the shrimp farming… Continue reading Shrimp farming in India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-289435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}