India beats pricing blues to record its best growth in shrimp exports

India logged a growth rate of 21.7 per cent, shipping 241,200 tonnes of shrimps from January to June of 2018.

Global shrimp trade in crashed 2018, but India upstaged competing nations in growth rate of exports.

The country logged a growth rate of 21.7 per cent, shipping 241,200 tonnes of shrimps from January to June of 2018, showed a report by Globefish, a unit within the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.

India's shrimp export growth rate beat major exporters Ecuador and Indonesia, which recorded 14 per cent growth each. Vietnam had clocked an increase of eight per cent only in exports of shrimps in the period under review.

Among the top seven players in the world,