Vannamei culture in India has gone through a super-fast development stage in the past decade, and become one of the largest production countries in the world with total production of 620,000 tons in 2018(source from FAO). Under the explosive growth of vannamei farming, plenty of new entrants without well-educated farm management knowledge have started culture and expanded in massive ways. In this condition, some key factors in farming management has been ignored.
As a result, in the last 4 years, it was noticed that farmers are facing more and more failure problems like virus and bacterial diseases and some slow growth and mortality syndromes. To control the issues, more and more farmers started to use antibiotics. When we look at the shrimp import data from FDA and EU, refusals due to antibiotics residue sharply increased and it seems not easy to recover. More and more attention should be paid to rise the importance of sustainable and healthy culture.
By learning from the history of some other big vannamei farming countries like China, Thailand and Vietnam which faced serious culture problems, the whole industry realized the importance of good farm management, especially bio-security and disease prevention by maintaining good pond and shrimp conditions. Farm-care products play critical roles and are paid high attention on the application in these countries.
Farmers are often confused by the varieties of farm-care products which are available in the market, since different companies have numbers of products and present different concepts. In this presentation, presenter will share experiences of using farm-care products and the key points of farm-care products in shrimp farming.