Omarsa ranked fifth in Ecuador’s top shrimp exporters last year, with exports of 24.56 million pounds (11.14 metric tons) totalling $74 million.
Now the company plans to convert its one remaining conventional shrimp farm over to organic in the next two years.
This will give it 3,000 ha. of organic shrimp farms and an annual production of between 6,000 metric tons and 7,000 metric tons, said Sandro Coglitore, the company’s general manager. Its current organic production is around 5,000 metric tons.
Omarsa’s main markets for its organic shrimp are currently Europe, with France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands leading the way, Coglitore told IntraFish.
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