Farmed shrimps export
stands at 60m dollars in 6 months

Iran’s farmed shrimps
export stood at $60 million in the first six months of the Iranian calendar
year (March 21 – September 22), an official with Agriculture Ministry
announced.

Ali-Akbar Khodaei, the
director of the Aquatics’ Production and Trade Union of Iran, said that 13,500
tons of shrimps were farmed in aqua farms during the said time span,
registering a 22 percent rise year on year. 

He named Russia as the
main destination for Iranian shrimp accounting for 40% of Iran’s total exports,
followed by the UAE which imported another 35% of the Iranian exports of the
product.

The rest 25% of Iranian
shrimp exports mainly went to China, Lebanon, Egypt, Spain, France, Britain and
some other regional countries, Khodaei said.

He added that some 80-85%
of Iran’s shrimp output are produced in two southern provinces of Hormuzgan and
Bushehr, IRNA reported. 

He also cited official
statistics that say there are some 16,000-17,000 active shrimp farms in Iran
with 4000-5000 others being under construction.