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Amid rising accumulation costs, shrimp provender manufacturing companies person projected to summation the prices again.
Aqua farmers crossed the State person requested Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, who is besides Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh State Aquaculture Development Authority (APSADA), to intervene and halt the determination to summation the price.
According to the sources, the manufacturers person decided to summation the prices by ₹12 per kg connected Vannamei shrimp provender and ₹14 per kg for tiger shrimp feed.
This follows emergence successful prices of food meal, food oil, minerals, binders, soybean, and different earthy materials utilized successful the manufacture of the provender during the three-month play from January 26 to April 26.
The manufacturers person written a missive to the AP Fisheries Commissioner and APSADA to springiness support for the projected terms rise. However, the aqua farmers are opposing the determination arsenic the prices person already been accrued by ₹4 per kg successful February, citing hike successful the accumulation cost.
Duggineni Gopinath, president of Prakasam District Shrimp Farmers’ Association, says, “The shrimp provender manufacturers person go a syndicate and are preparing to summation the provender prices again to load the aqua farmers. The Chief Minister should cull the connection and assistance the aqua farmers.”
“Currently, shrimp farmers are facing expanding accumulation outgo and their cultivation is not profitable. On the different hand, the shrimp kept successful ponds are dying owed to assorted viruses. In this situation, the provender manufacturing companies person formed a cartel and are seeking support for terms hike again,” helium observes.
In fact, the prices of earthy materials person not accrued arsenic overmuch arsenic the companies claim. Every year, from April 15 to June 14, the authorities imposes a prohibition connected fishing, during which play the proviso of food repast and food lipid is low. Also, the farmers who turn soybean person their harvest successful November and December, erstwhile the terms is less, reasons relation caput B. Ramesh Reddy.
The terms volition summation marginally successful the months of February, March and April. Citing this arsenic a reason, the provender manufacturing firms are attempting to summation the prices of shrimp provender and marque much profits, helium argues.
If the provender prices are increased, the shrimp farmers who bash not person remunerative prices volition wholly debar shrimp farming, and it volition pb to the illness of the aqua industry, fears relation vice-president Ch. Ramanaiah.
The relation leaders person besides urged the authorities to supply powerfulness subsidy to each shrimp farmers by reducing the tariff to ₹1.50 per unit.
