Avanti Feeds is the largest manufacturer of shrimp feed in India. Based in Andhra Pradesh, the Company is the dominant player in India’s aquaculture sector. Avanti Feeds is a great survivor in Indian aquaculture industry rebounding from death & obscurity
How Avanti became a leader?
In 2009, the Government made a decisive move to change the course of shrimp farming in the country. It allowed commercial cultivation of the whiteleg shrimp, also known as Litopenaeus vannamei. For this variant grew faster, was more resistant to disease than the black tiger shrimp and was more lucrative to cultivate. On the ground, Avanti spearheaded this change It convinced the farming community to get into the cultivation of vannamei shrimps. It partnered Thai Union Group, one of the largest global seafood companies to manufacture feed for white leg shrimp By 2017, the production of white leg shrimp touched 4.5 lakh tonnes in 2017, from 10,000 tonnes in 2010. While the production of black tiger shrimps, which was at 50,000 tonnes in 2009, was eventually stopped by 2015. Avanti emerged as the largest producer of shrimp feed in India
From -2019 Annual Report
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