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After U.S. President Donald Trump accrued tariff connected marine products from India to 50% successful August past year, seafood exports to that state from Andhra Pradesh has been deed hard.
This slump has affected farmers; effect and provender manufacturers; hatcheries; packers; cause manufacturers; laboratory owners; technicians; crystal factories; and exporters. According to the Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA), India shipped 13,69,264 tonnes of seafood successful 2021-22, 17,35,286 tonnes successful 2022-23 and 17,18,602 tonnes successful 2023-24, valued ₹60,523 crore.
The U.S. stock was astir 35% of the full Indian seafood exports. Andhra Pradesh, with its 974 km of coast, contributes implicit 32% of the full Indian seafood exports,” an MPEDA authoritative said, seeking anonymity.
“With the U.S. marketplace down, exporters aren’t buying stocks from aqua farmers anymore. In immoderate areas, the farmers person announced impermanent harvest holiday,” says Bhimavaram husbandman K. Nageswara Rao.
Speaking to The Hindu connected Sunday (January 4), Godavari Mega Aqua Aqua Food Park vice-president Uddaraju Jogi Anand Varma said exports to the U.S. dropped by astir 25% implicit the past fewer months. “We employment thousands of workers from Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Bihar among others astatine Godavari Mega Aqua Food Park astatine Tundurru colony successful West Godavari district,” Mr. Anand Varma said.
Seafood Exporters Association of India (SEAI) Andhra Pradesh president K. Anand Kumar said exporters are present searching for caller markets successful China, Vietnam, European Union (EU) and Russia. “Shipments to the EU and China person accrued implicit the past fewer months. We petition the Centre to intervene and person Free Trade Agreements with different countries to assistance the aqua sector,” Mr. Anand Kumar said.
