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A two-day nationalist store connected seafood exports opened successful Visakhapatnam connected Friday (June 5, 2026), portion of a propulsion to instrumentality India’s yearly exports past ₹1 lakh crore, from a grounds ₹73,890.46 crore ($8.45 billion) successful 2025-26.
Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu; Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal; Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh; Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu; and Food Processing Industries Minister Chirag Paswan attended.
The National Workshop connected Seafood Exports commenced successful Visakhapatnam with the ceremonial lighting of the lamp by Shri N. Chandrababu Naidu, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Shri Rajiv Ranjan Singh, Hon'ble Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying and… pic.twitter.com/0ol0G15E58
— Department of Fisheries, Min of FAH&D (@FisheriesGoI) June 5, 2026Organised by the Department of Fisheries, nether the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, successful collaboration with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the store is meant to illustration a roadmap for the export sector, built connected worth addition, traceability and a bigger relation for start-ups and MSMEs.
Strategic focus
“The store aims to integrate start-ups and MSMEs into the planetary export proviso concatenation portion addressing regulatory and infrastructure challenges. Technical sessions are slated to absorption connected advancing exports done improved certification and traceability, arsenic good arsenic the relation of emerging sectors successful driving diversification,” the Ministries said successful a associated statement.
Officials from nationalist institutions, including the Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA), the Export Inspection Council (EIC) and the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), are taking portion alongside manufacture stakeholders for nonstop engagement and argumentation alignment.
Andhra Pradesh astatine the helm
Andhra Pradesh, the country’s largest food and seafood producer, is astatine the centre of this maturation story, reporting aquaculture accumulation of 55.39 lakh tonnes successful 2025-26. The State has emerged arsenic a superior hub for marine exports, backed by extended infrastructure improvement nether the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY).
Current infrastructure projects see six integrated food landing centres, 3 sportfishing harbours astatine Pudimadaka, Budagatlapalem and Kothapatnam, and an integrated aqua parkland astatine Bapatla, a combined concern of much than ₹1,352 crore. These initiatives are portion of a broader propulsion to modernise fisheries infrastructure and enactment the livelihoods of much than 4 lakh beneficiaries successful the State.
Strengthening the ecosystem
India’s seafood exports reached a grounds ₹73,890.46 crore ($8.45 billion) successful 2025-26, and volumes touched 19.72 lakh metric tonnes. To support up this momentum against planetary tariff and non-tariff barriers, the authorities is relying connected schemes specified arsenic the Blue Revolution Scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Kisan Sah-Yojana (PMMKSSY) and the Fisheries and Aquaculture Infrastructure Development Fund (FIDF).
The Export Promotion Mission (EPM) of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry is moving to guarantee taxation neutrality and little outgo burdens, strengthening India’s presumption successful the planetary seafood market.
Over the 2 days, the participants are expected to finalise recommendations to marque the country’s seafood export assemblage much competitory and inclusive.
