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Item Problems and prospects of seafood exporters in Ernakulam district, Kerala(College of Co-operation Banking and Management, Vellanikkara, 2017) Hari Prakash, A; Arularasan, G SIndian fisheries and aquaculture are important sectors of food production providing nutritional security to the food basket, contributing to the agricultural exports and engaging about fourteen million people in varied activities. With diverse resources ranging from deep seas to lakes in the mountains and more than 10 percent of the global biodiversity in terms of fish and shellfish species, the country has shown continuous and sustained growth in fish production since Independence. Constituting about 4.4 percent of the global fish production, the sector contributes to 1.07 percent of the GDP and 4.7 percent of the agricultural GDP. The total fish production of 6.4 million metric tonnes presently has nearly 55 percent contribution from the inland sector and nearly the same from culture fisheries. Paradigm shifts in terms of increasing contributions from inland sector and further from aquaculture are significant over the years, with high growth rates. The different facets of marine fisheries, coastal aquaculture, and fisheries are increasingly being diversified, contributing to food, health, economy, exports, employment and tourism of the country. The present chapter intends to summarise the findings in the foregoing comprehensive analysis. It seeks to make a set of suggestions while highlighting various aspects of production and exports, it also analyses factors contributing to the exports of seafood exports in Ernakulum District. This study makes an effort to bring out the problems and prospects of the marine fishery sector, it further makes some indication for future research.Item Export performance of Indian Seafood Industry - a study on MPEDA Cochin(College of Co-operation Banking and Management, Vellanikkara, 2017) Deepthi Babu; Ranjit Kumar, E GFish producing countries, apart from meeting the demand in domestic market, are exporting fish products to many countries to meet the demand in international market and also to earn foreign exchange. There are several items in the category of marine products which is meant for export of major destinations of the world. Export promotion is very essential for the development of Indian economy. Hence the government of India has been adopting various export promotional measures for the promotion and development of marine products. Export Promotion measures includ7e various policy decisions, schemes, concessions, incentives facilities offered to the exporters. The Marine Product Export Development Authority was constituted in 1972 at Cochin for the overall development of marine product industry and promoting the export of marine products. The authority is concerned with regulation and growth of marine products. Special emphasizes is laid on maintaining quality of marine products, processing, packing, storing, shipment, marketing etc. The authority conducts fairs and exhibitions and also takes part in international fairs. The authority advices central government on all matters related to seafood industry and its exports. On a thorough study conducted in the previous chapter, some facts were identified. As mentioned earlier, as there are number of items under the marine products meant for export to different destinations, analysis has been done for those items and the following details has been found out