Chinese Prawn/Shrimp Farm to Fill Supply Gap and Create Over 100,000 Jobs

ANALYSIS - Sino Agro Foods has announced that its planned prawn farm complex will culture shrimp and prawns from hatchery to grow-out and packing all on its giant complex. With production expected to start in the second quarter of 2015, the farm will sell initially to the Chinese market and then for export, writes Lucy Towers, TheFishSite Editor.


The vast farming complex in in Nanlang Town, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, will be home to Mexican Whites (Penaeus Vannamei) and LawZi prawns (Macrobrachium Rosenbergli) at a 50:50 ratio.


A spokesperson for the company stated that they expect to sell shrimp at RMB 60,000 per metric ton, and prawns at RMB 80,000 per metric ton.