The Comeback of Penaeus Monodon in Indonesia

The development of P. vannamei in Indonesia has lead to an unprospective future. Vannamei is no longer resistant to diseases and ideas of going back with monodon is raising. Monodon itself is a local species and still has its prospect to reign again the shrimp production in Indonesia.

In the eighties till the beginning of the nineties, Indonesia led in the production of shrimp especially the monodon species, but due to bad management in practices the quality of pond and also the shrimp declined very fast.

Still the is hope for Indonesia shrimp, but some people said its to late because already other Asian countries such as India, Vietnam, Thailand had developed it very seriously for a great comeback.

Monodon is an original species from Indonesia so why not it isn't developed like vannamei?

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SCI Target for 26 Thousand Tons

The Shrimp Club Indonesia (SCI) located at Medan plan to target this year shrimp production of North Sumatera at 26000 tons. The production of this year hopefully increase from last year (which was 20000 tons). All of the shirmp produced is for the export market.

The head of SCI, Savwin said that the North Sumatra shrimp aquaculture will still be dominated by intensive shrimp cultures which culture the Litopennaeus vannamei species. The rest of the aquaculture in that area are small farmers that culture Penaeus monodon.

Specifically the target of L. vannamei this year is around 15 - 20 thousand tons (from the intensive cultures) while the rest will be from the small farmers that comprises 20 - 30% of the previous amount.

The shrimp from North Sumatra usually is exported to Europe, Japan and United States of America. While the production target increase, it is a pity that the farmers could not have the same price as the exporters.

Since January, the shrimp price decrease and at the end of January it became only 4 US$ /kg. The head of SCI said that this was caused by the antibiotic issue but it is not all true because the farmers now doesn't use antibiotic excessively.

The Director of Medan Tropical Canning, Husin Pratama, said that their company had reduced the export of vannamei because the price offered is not competitive in the world market.

Source:
http://www.seputar-indonesia.com/edisicetak/sumatra-utara/sci-targetkan-26-ribu-ton-3.html

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