Some positive points on the engagement that Avanti has with shrimp farmers–clearly states how the farmers have benefited by knowing how to handle diseases from their engagement with Avanti…
Farm level engagement
In Andhra Pradesh, publicly-listed Avanti Feeds, India’s largest shrimp feed company which also has a separate joint venture with Thai Union Group called Avanti Frozen Foods, is working more closely at the farm level.
Avanti Feeds employee handles a shrimp at a partner farm in Andhra Pradesh
At one of its ‘partner farms’ Undercurrent visited last week several Avanti employees were based semi-permanently on the farm, carrying out a range of farm duties, such as feeding shrimp, monitoring water quality, and farm upkeep. The owner of the farm had done “very well” financially due to “extreme care” he had taken with farm management, Nikhilesh Alluri, business development manager at Avanti Feeds said. Despite an outbreak of whitespot syndrome at a neighboring farm, his farm had been unaffected.
“They know how to handle it [whitespot] now,” said Alluri. Since building the farm two and half years ago and achieving annual production of 800 metric tons, the owner intends to expand the farm.