Intensive Shrimp Farming and Its Sustainable Development of India

by

 

P. M. Prasad

Shrimp culture

Shrimp Culture in Agricultural Land

Aqua Culture

Sustainable Development

Inter- generational equity (a necessary condition for sustainable development)

 

Intra- generational equity (a necessary condition for development)

ExternalitiesPositive Externalities

• Foreign Exchange Earnings

• Poverty Alleviation• Technology Transfer• Rural Development

Negative Externalities

• Irreversibility• Food Security• Health Hazards• Human Rights Violation• Unemployment• Crop Sensitivity• Inequitable Income

Distribution

Area under cultivation in (ha.) 1998-99

WB29%

O5%

AP49%

TN5%

KRL10%

KRK2%

GUJ0%

GOA0%MAH0%

Production in (tonnes) 1998-99

AP

55%

TN

2%

KRL

9%

O

7%

WB

23%

GOA

1%

KRK

3%MAH

0%

GUJ

0%

Srimp Farming in Andhra Pradesh

0

5000

10000

15000

20000

25000

1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99

Year (s)PRODUCTION EXPORT CONSUMPTION

The Problem

• Whether intensive shrimp farming in coastal agricultural fertile land promotes the private gains at the cost of society?

• Whether the myopic behaviour of individual intensive shrimp farmer leads to degradation of not only his or her own coastal agricultural fertile lands but also the neighbouring paddy fields?

The plausible results

Socially desirable land use

Sustainable development