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    McIntosh: Ecuador’s “APE Seed Shrimp” (non-SPF) has become the biggest obstacle to limiting production growth

    • Last Update: 2021-09-03
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    In the past five years, South American countries, dominated by Ecuador, have become the main force in the growth of the global shrimp farming industry due to their low production costs
    .
    However, as the scale of aquaculture expands, the area that can be developed is becoming less and less.
    Senior industry insiders believe that the Ecuadorian shrimp farming industry has long followed the low-density free-range model, or it will become a limiting factor for industrial development
    .
     
    During the Aquaculture Roundtable Series (TARS), Robins McIntosh, Senior Vice President of Thai CP Foods (CPF), put forward a new point of view: Ecuador’s low-density farming model has reached a bottleneck.
    If we simply continue to open up new farming land to expand Output is neither economical nor feasible
    .
     
    "The biggest weakness of Ecuador is that if new land is not developed, the possibility of supply increase will be less and less
    .
    The cost of digging aquaculture ponds in Ecuador has been rising.
    Compared with the 1980s, the cost is no longer a concept.

    .
    " McIntosh said
    .
     
    "For example, if you want to farm 5 million tons of white shrimp, using the Asian high-density model requires 350,000 hectares of land, but in Latin America, it needs 1.
    75 million hectares.
    This possibility is close to zero
    .
    " McIntosh said
    .

     
      “Recently, Ecuador is slowly adopting high-density aquaculture, using aerators, automatic feeding machines and sewage systems, and other countries in Latin America are also imitating
    .
    However, Ecuador’s shrimp seedling production has been using'All Pathogens' (All Pathogens).
    Exposed, A PE ) growing shrimp has become the biggest obstacle to the transition to high-density aquaculture
    .
    "
     
      According to McIntosh, CPF holds a 40% stake in Camanor Produtos Marinhos, a Brazilian aquaculture company
    .
    The CPF technical team conducted both low-density and high-density breeding experiments.
    "APE shrimp larvae perform well in low-density mode and are not prone to diseases
    .
    Once high-density aquaculture is used, we will encounter problems such as IHHNV, EHP, etc.
    , even It will also be infected with other viruses
    .
    "
     
      A similar problem occurred in Guatemala farms.
    A clean farm was stocking APE shrimp larvae, and EMS broke out in the end
    .
    McIntosh believes that the lack of high-quality seed has always been a major challenge for emerging breeding countries in South America, because once infected with a pathogen, the disease will break out sooner or later
    .

     
      Although the high-density breeding model pursued by Asian countries also has disease risks and breeding costs, high-quality seed and fine management can help improve the survival rate of breeding, feed conversion rate, water resources and energy efficiency
    .
     
      "I want to emphasize once again that with the research of genomics and genetics, we will continue to improve the disease resistance and tolerance of shrimp larvae, provide the market with faster-growing and higher-yield seed shrimp, and promote high density.
    The model is constantly improving and moving forward
    .
    " McIntosh said
    .

    Farming
     
      During the Aquaculture Roundtable Series (TARS), Robins McIntosh, Senior Vice President of Thai CP Foods (CPF), put forward a new point of view: Ecuador’s low-density farming model has reached a bottleneck.
    If we simply continue to open up new farming land to expand Output is neither economical nor feasible
    .
     
      "The biggest weakness of Ecuador is that if new land is not developed, the possibility of supply increase will be less and less
    .
    The cost of digging aquaculture ponds in Ecuador has been rising.
    Compared with the 1980s, the cost is no longer a concept.

    .
    " McIntosh said
    .
     
      "For example, if you want to farm 5 million tons of white shrimp, using the Asian high-density model requires 350,000 hectares of land, but in Latin America, it needs 1.
    75 million hectares.
    This possibility is close to zero
    .
    " McIntosh said
    .

     
      “Recently, Ecuador is slowly adopting high-density aquaculture, using aerators, automatic feeding machines and sewage systems, and other countries in Latin America are also imitating
    .
    However, Ecuador’s shrimp seedling production has been using'All Pathogens' (All Pathogens).
    Exposed, A PE ) growing shrimp has become the biggest obstacle to the transition to high-density aquaculture
    .
    "
    PE
     
      According to McIntosh, CPF holds a 40% stake in Camanor Produtos Marinhos, a Brazilian aquaculture company
    .
    The CPF technical team conducted both low-density and high-density breeding experiments.
    "APE shrimp larvae perform well in low-density mode and are not prone to diseases
    .
    Once high-density aquaculture is used, we will encounter problems such as IHHNV, EHP, etc.
    , even It will also be infected with other viruses
    .
    "
     
      A similar problem occurred in Guatemala farms.
    A clean farm was stocking APE shrimp larvae, and EMS broke out in the end
    .
    McIntosh believes that the lack of high-quality seed has always been a major challenge for emerging breeding countries in South America, because once infected with a pathogen, the disease will break out sooner or later
    .

     
      Although the high-density breeding model pursued by Asian countries also has disease risks and breeding costs, high-quality seed and fine management can help improve the survival rate of breeding, feed conversion rate, water resources and energy efficiency
    .
     
      "I want to emphasize once again that with the research of genomics and genetics, we will continue to improve the disease resistance and tolerance of shrimp larvae, provide the market with faster-growing and higher-yield seed shrimp, and promote high density.
    The model is constantly improving and moving forward
    .
    " McIntosh said
    .

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