Intensive Shrimp Farming and Its Sustainable Development of India by P. M. Prasad

Shrimp culture Shrimp Culture in Agricultural Land Aqua Culture

Sustainable Development Inter- generational equity (a necessary condition for sustainable development) Intra- generational equity (a necessary condition for development)

Externalities Positive Externalities Foreign Exchange Earnings Poverty Alleviation Technology Transfer Rural Development Negative Externalities Irreversibility Food Security Health Hazards Human Rights Violation Unemployment Crop Sensitivity Inequitable Income Distribution

The Problem Whether intensive shrimp farming in coastal agricultural fertile land promotes the private gains at the cost of society? Whether the myopic behaviour of individual intensive shrimp farmer leads to degradation of not only his or her own coastal agricultural fertile lands but also the neighbouring paddy fields?

The plausible results Socially desirable land use Sustainable development