Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary Barriers to Trade and its Impact on the Environment

The report examines the shrimp industry in Bangladesh, noting that while shrimp is the second largest export, the sector faces crises due to production inefficiencies and the difficulty of implementing HACCP standards on small farms. It warns that a trend toward intensive farming threatens rural social fabrics and recommends training, better liaison between farmers and processors, and multi-stakeholder dialogue to achieve environmental sustainability.

• Shrimp is the second largest export from Bangladesh, with the industry employing 600,000 people and generating US$301 million annually from bagda (tiger shrimp) and golda (sweet water shrimp) farms.
• The industry faces a crisis characterized by low production capacity at processing plants and low yields at farms, exacerbated by the difficulty of imposing HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) standards on small shrimp farms despite their adoption by processing plants.
• There is a trend toward intensive shrimp farming that threatens the social fabric of rural Bangladesh by increasing conflicts and concentrating ownership of the export sector in the hands of a few operators, removing income sources for smallholders.
• The shrimp sector is hindered by mutual mistrust between farmers and processors, as well as high commissions taken by middlemen, suggesting a need for a neutral organization to facilitate a multi-stakeholder dialogue process.

APA

Haque, A. E. (2003). Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary Barriers to Trade and its Impact on the Environment. International Institute for Sustainable Development. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/tkn_shrimp_bangladesh_sum.pdf

Chicago

Haque, A.K. Enamul. Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary Barriers to Trade and its Impact on the Environment. International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2003. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/tkn_shrimp_bangladesh_sum.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{haque2003sanitary, author = {Haque, A.K. Enamul}, title = {{Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary Barriers to Trade and its Impact on the Environment}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, year = {2003}, month = jun, url = {https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/tkn_shrimp_bangladesh_sum.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }