Indonesia's Maritime and Fishery Ministry has set the country's shrimp production target at 608,000 metric tons this year, a sharp increase of 46.2 percent from 415,703 metric tons in 2012, reported Antara News.
Production is continually growing, Slamet Soebjakto, fish breeding director general at the ministry, said.
Last year, production rose 4 percent compared to 2011. This year's target is based on production which already reached 320,000 metric tons in the first half of the year.
Producers would be boosted by the rise in prices as a result of growing demand in the world market, Soebjakto said.
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