India’s seafood exports have touched an all-time high of Rs 18,856 crore for 2012-13, which is a 13.6% higher in value terms over the previous year. The total value in dollar terms however stood at $3,512 million registering a marginal growth of 0.1%. The poor growth in dollar terms can be attributed to a sharp decline in the unit value of marine products. For the year 2013-14, MPEDA has set an ambitious seafood export target of $4.3 billion.
As per report compiled by Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA), the total quantity of exports showed a rise of 7.68% and stood at 928,215 tonne for the year. Frozen shrimp was the top performer, contributing over 51% in the total seafood export value. Though, its value showed almost 19% increase, frozen shrimp recorded the steepest fall in unit value realization at 14%. As per MPEDA, the increase in exports should be viewed in the light of weaker economic conditions in Europe, continuing anti-dumping duty and the possibility of a countervailing duty on frozen shrimp in sluggish US markets, a moderate growth in China, technical barriers to trade with Japan, and the fluctuating rupee. Supply conditions in other countries also recovered last year.
Southeast Asia continued to be the largest buyer of Indian seafood with a share of 23% in value, followed by the European Union at 22%, the US at 21%, Japan at 11% and China with 8%. There was a marginal decrease in quantity and 8% fall in value in total marine products exports to the Southeast Asia. Shrimp showed a 25% increase in export quantity to the region and a higher growth of 49% in volume, and a 21% jump in value to the US.
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