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Prakasam District Shrimp Farmers Association president Duggineni Gopinath connected Tuesday (June 16, 2026) demanded that the shrimp provender manufacturing companies enactment connected clasp the terms hikes they person precocious implemented until the State government-appointed committee submits its study connected aqua provender prices. He urged the authorities to intervene and rotation backmost the terms increases to relieve the fiscal load connected the farmers
The 15-member A.P. Shrimp Feed Ingredients Price Monitoring Committee has been constituted with representatives from State Institute of Fisheries Technology (SIFT), Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA), Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (CIBA), A.P. State Aquaculture Development Authority (APSADA), and Aqua Farmers Associations.
As per the G.O. issued by the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development and Fisheries connected Monday (June 15), the committee volition analyse the information relating to aquaculture provender ingredients prices prevailing successful the nationalist level, show food repast and soya legume prices astatine planetary level and measure the shrimp provender ingredients prices from antithetic websites and proviso agencies with invoices.
The committee volition besides analyse the factors contributing to saltation successful provender rates, including earthy worldly prices, accumulation costs and marketplace conditions. After consulting with method experts and probe institutions, it volition urge tenable and transparent shrimp provender complaint appraisal mechanisms to support the interests of the aqua farmers.
Mr. Gopinath said, “Merely establishing committees to show provender prices—without really reducing the precocious hiked rates—will not alleviate the fiscal load connected farmers. Moreover, the outgo of aqua provender volition proceed to measurement heavy connected them. The authorities should instrumentality enactment against the provender companies that person violated regulations and failed to rotation backmost the terms hikes.”
He further said, “The shrimp provender companies person hiked the terms of Vannamei provender by ₹10 per kg and Tiger shrimp provender by ₹12 per kg—without the support of the APSADA oregon the State government, and disregarding farmers’ objections. This is not lone a substance affecting the livelihoods of 20 lakh people, but besides a stroke to important overseas speech net and the State’s growth.”
Speaking to The Hindu, A.P. Fisheries Commissioner Rama Shankar Naik said, “Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Kinjarapu Atchannaidu has conducted a gathering with each stakeholders this month. During the discussions, the provender makers person urged the Minister that it was not feasible for them to bring down the prices of Vannamei and Tiger shrimp feed.”
