India, June 17 -- India's aquaculture sector has long struggled with a simple but costly problem: farmers produce high-value shrimp, but much of that value is lost before the product reaches the buyer. Inefficiencies in aggregation, post-harvest handling and market access continue to hold back both farmer incomes and export potential.

While studying fisheries science at the Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology in the 2010s, Abhishek Dwivedy began questioning why India, despite its long coastline and maritime history, accounted for only 5% of the global seafood market.

After graduating, Dwivedy worked across the seafood value chain, including procurement, processing, quality management and exports, to learn the ropes of the tr...