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India
Assessments and Projections from Outlook for Fish to 2020: Meeting Global Demand
- In 1997, India produced 4.8 million metric tons of fish for food. By 2020, under the baseline scenario, production is projected to increase to nearly 8 million metric tons, a 67 percent jump.
- In 1997, 40 percent of India's food fish production came from aquaculture. By 2020, however, aquaculture is projected to account for 55 percent of the nearly 8 million metric tons of fish the country is projected to produce. Aquaculture in India is projected to grow by an average 3.7 percent annually between 1997 and 2020.
- Under the baseline scenario, consumption of food fish in India is projected to rise from 4.5 million metric tons in 1997 to 7.4 million metric tons in 2020, a 62 percent increase.
- Consumption of high-value finfish in India will increase at an annual rate of 2.7 percent-significantly faster than consumption of low-value food fish, which will increase at an annual rate of 1.9 percent. However, by 2020, low-value food fish will still account for nearly 72 percent of all fish eaten in India.
- By 2020, net exports of food fish from India will total 426,000 metric tons, a 250 percent increase over 1997 levels.
- For low-value food fish, India is projected to turn net imports of 147,000 metric tons in 1997 to net exports of 515,000 metric tons in 2020.
- Net imports of high-value finfish in India will be 286,000 metric tons in 2020, whereas the country was a net exporter of 41,000 metric tons in 1997.
Other facts about India:
- India's population is over one billion, 72 percent of whom live in rural areas. India's total projected population in 2020 is 1.265 billion. (World Bank, World Development Indicators, 2003)
- Agriculture employs about two-thirds of the Indian population, but represents only one-third of the gross domestic product. Agriculture employs 84 percent of all women workers in India. (Embassy of India in the United States, 2003; United Nations Development Programme Pro-Poor Initiatives for India, 2001)
- Forty-seven percent of children under five in India are malnourished. (World Bank, World Development Indicators, 2003)
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