... chain is increasing, and that conversely, the influence of small-scale farmers is declining. Nonetheless, small-scale farmers are expected to have a significant role to play in ensuring the ... and maintaining BMPs. Such business units will also contribute and compete successfully in emerging value chains in the future, as long as they are appropriately established sooner rather than ... based, along the lines of the successful NACSA shrimp farming BMP experience in the Andra Pradesh region of India. Such an arrangement will provide practical, cost-effective means of adoption...