Is Pacific white shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) farming in India sustainable? A multidimensional indicators-based assessment

M. Kumaran (), M. Sundaram, Shijo Mathew, P. R. Anand, T. K. Ghoshal, P. Kumararaja, R. Anandaraja, Shyne Anand and K. K. Vijayan
Additional contact information
M. Kumaran: ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture
M. Sundaram: ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture
Shijo Mathew: ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture
P. R. Anand: ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture
T. K. Ghoshal: ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture
P. Kumararaja: ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture
R. Anandaraja: ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture
Shyne Anand: ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture
K. K. Vijayan: ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2021, vol. 23, issue 4, No 81, 6466-6480

Abstract: Abstract Pacific white shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) farming has boosted the Indian shrimp production to an all-time high of 0.7 MMT. However, its susceptibility to pathogens, seed quality issues, asymmetry in inputs costs and market prices, environmental limitations and inadequate institutional support are threatening its sustainability. The present study was undertaken to assess its sustainability by developing a composite sustainability index delineating technology, economics, environment, social and institutional indicators. The results show that the pacific white shrimp farming in India is sustainable with a mean sustainability index of 0.77. Majority of the surveyed farms (61%) were operated at moderate to high level of sustainability (0.66–0.84). Dimension wise analysis indicate that P. vannamei shrimp farming was technology driven, economically profitable, benefitted the society, yet, need improvement in environmental and institutional dimensions. Shrimp farm water reconditioning and reuse for subsequent crops, provision of institutional credit and insurance would further enhance its sustainability. Further access to quality shrimp seed, carrying capacity-based stocking density, optimization of inputs, mobilizing farmers for collective compliance of BMPs and strengthening institutional support mechanisms for domestic marketing are together complement the sustainability of shrimp farming in India.

Keywords: Shrimp farming; Environment; Development; Sustainability; Production parameters; Multidimensional index; Water recycling; Collective compliance; Socio-economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10668-020-00881-0 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:endesu:v:23:y:2021:i:4:d:10.1007_s10668-020-00881-0

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/10668

DOI: 10.1007/s10668-020-00881-0

Access Statistics for this article

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development is currently edited by Luc Hens

More articles in Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().