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Shrimp : Group approach to shrimp farming: the key to sustainability
Posted on 12/10/2009 (1944 reads)

Reservoir pond and the culture pond in a farm
Kumaran, M.

In India shrimp aquaculture is being practiced mostly along the brackishwater creeks and canals in clusters of farms drawing and draining water from the same source. There are around 100,000 small scale shrimp farmers occupying about 140,000 hectares with an annual production of about 140,000 tonnes1. Indian shrimp culture has passed through three distinct phases:

The 'rising phase-I' from the late eighties to 1995 wherein a sense of competitiveness prevailed among the farmers in a given locality. The farmers maintained ‘at most secrecy’ in all farm operations to produce more shrimp and make huge profits in just about four months of grow out. Right; Reservoir pond and the culture pond in a farm
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Shrimp : Shrimp Farming eNews - December 2008
Posted on 10/12/2008 (6550 reads)
Shrimp

Shrimp farming eNews is a free email newsletter service that provides the latest information on shrimp farming, trade, environment, and technology and industry development, obtained from NACA partners and media monitoring services. The December 2008 issue is now available online, or you can subscribe to have it delivered automatically to via email.

Contents:

1. Revival of abandoned shrimp farms in Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh, India.

2. Litopenaeus vannamei in India: Challenges and opportunities for Indian small scale farmers and the role of BMP Programs.

3. Implementation of BMPs for traditional shrimp farming in Bireuen and Aceh Utara Indonesia.

4. Progress on the IFC/NACA Aceh Shrimp Project.

5. WWF-Indonesias Shrimp Aquaculture Program.

6. Application of PCR for improved shrimp health management in the Asian region.

7. "Shrimp Network" facilitating small scale farmer to access market through online database.

8. Improving capability for shrimp virus PCR testing laboratories in Vietnam.

9. Supporting Small scale farmer group in Thailand to Access EU market.

10. Market information.

11. Upcoming events.

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Shrimp : WWF meeting to develop better shrimp farming standards
Posted on 4/11/2008 (6394 reads)
Shrimp

Editor's note: The press release below was issued by WWF and is reproduced here for information purposes. It does not necessarily reflect NACA views or policies, and the NACA organisation does not endorse individual aquaculture standards.

World aquaculture industry leaders, producers and government officials will meet in Bangkok, Thailand this November to develop standards for shrimp farming in efforts to reduce its negative impacts on the environment and people.

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) initiated Shrimp Aquaculture Dialogue will hold its first meeting for the Asian region, in Bangkok on November 17-18. Asia is one of three focal regions for the Dialogue, which was created last year. Africa and the Americas are the others.
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Shrimp : Revival of abandoned shrimp farms in Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh
Posted on 29/10/2008 (6244 reads)

Shrimp grown in Chinnapuram Society ponds
Chinnapuram Village in Machilipatnam Mandal of Andhra Pradesh is one among the many villages with a large number of abandoned shrimp farms in Krishna district. Out of the1200 ha of pond area in the village around 800 ha is abandoned while farmers continue farming shrimp in the remaining area, where average productivity is very low due to poor farming and management practices. Farmers feel lucky if they harvest 50 kg shrimp/ha after four months of crop.
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Shrimp : Indian shrimp farmer societies succeed through better management practices
Posted on 29/8/2008 (7387 reads)

Coordinator of the Penduru Society testing water quality
The Krishna district covers about one third of the total brackish water area developed into shrimp ponds in Andhra Pradesh, India. Although untill the mid 1990s shrimp farmers earned good returns and investment in technologies for good management practices were generally ignored. As a result, shrimp farming in Krishna district failed to withstand the impact of viral disease outbreaks in the mid 1990s. As the situation failed to improve, a large number of farmers abandoned shrimp farming. Presently, farmers from socially and economically challenged communities dominate the shrimp farming population in the district who lack skills, information and organization. Photo: Coordinator of the Penduru Society testing water quality.

In Andhra Pradesh NaCSA has organized more than 100 farmers societies, 30 of them are in Krishna District. The first three societies in Krishna were organized in Penduru village, which is located in Bantumilli mandal of Krishna District. There are 164 farmers involved in shrimp farming owning 384 ponds in 600 acres farming area. Out of this, 63 farmers formed into three societies in the village earlier in the year.

All the 63 farmers (84 ponds, 67 ha area) agreed to follow the better management practices (BMPs) starting with getting disease free seed through contract hatchery system where farmers collectively placed bulk orders to a hatchery, 45 days in advance of the planned stocking date, for production of required quantity and quality of seeds. Through a consultative process, facilitated by the NaCSA team, a mutual agreement has been formed between the selected hatchery and three societies. The agreement included included screening broodstock for disease, using only disease free broodstock for seed production, single spawner systems, no use of banned antibiotics, good feeding practices and other terms and conditions for production and procurement of quality seed.
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