Question : EXPORT OF SEAFOOD ITEMS



(a) whether export of seafood items have been reduced in the last few years;

(b) if so, the details thereof during the last three years and the current year;

(c) whether Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) have taken any steps to promote the export of seafood items; and

(d) if so, the details thereof and the outcome achieved thereon?

Answer given by the minister


MINISTER OF THE STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (SHRI JYOTIRADITYA M. SCINDIA)

(a) & (b): No, Madam. Export of marine products from India growth in the US $ earnings as can be seen from the table below:-

Particulars	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	CAGR#
Quantity (in 461.33 512.16 612.64 541.70 602.84 6.91% Thousand MTs)
Value (in 6,646.69 7,245.30 8,363.53 7,620.92 8,607.94 6.68% Rs.Cr.)
Value (in 1,478.48 1,644.21 1,852.93 1,899.09 1,908.63 6.59% US $ Million)

# CAGR=Compounded Annual Growth Rate 2008-09=over 2004-05
(c) & (d) Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) have taken following steps to increase production and export of seafood items from India :

(i) With the objective of improving aquaculture National Centre for Sustainable Aquaculture (NaCSA) was established at Kakinada for providing extension services to farmers of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Orissa & Karnataka;

(ii) A Mission Mode Programme in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Orissa has been launched to expand aquaculture;

(iii) MPEDA is also targeting development of new technologies in aquaculture such as specific “ pathogen” free broodstock development and domestication of shrimp;

(iv) Aquatic Quarantine facility for use, when L. vennamei broodstock is imported, is being set up under Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture (RGCA); and

(v) Recently organic freshwater prawn was farmed and cultivated for the first time in the world in Kerala.