Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Bangladesh Aquaculture Alliance to launch next month to boost industry

The Bangladesh Aquaculture Alliance (BAA) will begin working to ensure traceability, quality and augmented production in February, the Alliance informed.  A committee of 21 members belonging to the BAA, a platform for the shrimp industry’s stakeholders, was set up this month to manage the sector per the demands of foreign clients and to guarantee food safety throughout the supply chain.



The European Union (EU) had recommended the traceability upgrade to help increase the credibility of the Bangladeshi shrimp industry as well as the entry of its shrimps into markets abroad, the committee said.  According to the committee, the BAA was developed to integrate the shrimp and fish farming industries and incorporate all the stakeholders including fish and shrimp farmers, hatchery owners, ice plant owners, feed producers and millers, processing facilities and exporters, reports Financial Express.

"We are now waiting for the government's approval and hope the activities of the alliance will start by February," told Maqsudur Rahman, vice president of Bangladesh Frozen Food Exporters Association (BFFEA) and president of the BAA. All the stakeholders from the production to the export level will be brought together under one roof, he said. Read more...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers.

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