India is World’s Second-Largest Shrimp Producer. That is Now Under Threat
US tariffs have dealt a deadly blow to the Indian shrimp industry that relies predominantly on exports.
Kolkata, India: Buddhadeb Pradhan, a shrimp farmer in Nandigram in the West Bengal state in eastern India, has taken a major risk by cultivating a second shrimp crop within weeks of harvesting the first cycle.
But he needs the money and is willing to risk a diseased crop, a common occurrence when there are two harvesting cycles in a pond in the...
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