Many of the small-scale shrimp farmers that make up India’s $30 billion (€27 million) shrimp and seafood industry are struggling with rising costs and an inability to attract investment to grow and develop their farms.
Electricity in India is unreliable, and farmers often worry whether they have lost biomass during the night due to a power shortage.
Their problems have been exacerbated the last couple of years in part because of an increasingly volatile global shrimp market, which has put further pressures on the farmers' already thin margins.
