Shrimp farms have spurred a marine products exports growth in the country, with the total seafood exports crossing a whopping USD 5 billion during 2013-14.
While seafood has shown a cumulative growth of 5.98 per cent in production over last year, shrimp industry has emerged as a tremendous value adder with frozen shrimp exports contributing to 64.12 per cent of the total USD earnings.
Even as the shrimp industry in the East Asian countries was facing threat of extinction due to the dreaded Early Mortality Syndrome (EMS) infection , Indian shrimp industry has shown resilience and strong growth.
