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OUR STORY

Shrimp every day. Hyderabad today, India tomorrow.

India is the world's #2 shrimp producer.Most Indians have never tasted it fresh.

Nearly every prawn grown in India is packed, frozen, and shipped abroad. A family in UK or Texas eats it fresher than a family in Hyderabad. That's a solvable problem — and we're solving it.

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Why now

Indians don't avoid shrimp. They avoid the friction.

India is the world's #2 shrimp producer, yet per-capita consumption is among the lowest of any major economy. The reason isn't taste — it's a stack of small frictions that have never been solved together. Here's every one of them, and what we do about it.

Barrier

Most Indians live 500 km from the coast.

"Fresh" prawns inland are days old, ammoniated, and sold without batch information. No real cold chain exists between Andhra ponds and Hyderabad kitchens.

How we fix it

Pond-to-door reefer chain. Harvested in the morning, on a refrigerated truck before noon, at your door the next day — never above 4 °C, never frozen.

Barrier

Cleaning prawns is a smelly hassle.

Heads, shells, veins. The kitchen stinks for hours. Working moms who'd cook prawns weekly only cook them monthly because of the prep ritual.

How we fix it

Pick Ready to Cook at checkout — peeled, deveined, ready for the pan. We do the prep at our hub, so your kitchen stays clean.

Barrier

The younger generation doesn't know how to cook prawns.

Their mothers cooked chicken curry, not prawn curry. There's a recipe-familiarity gap that supermarket packaging never bothered to close.

How we fix it

Every product card suggests a tonight-friendly recipe with time + difficulty. "Garlic Butter Shrimp · 12 min · Easy." Cook it once and you'll cook it again.

Barrier

Wet markets and supermarket fish counters are opaque.

You can't tell when the prawn was harvested, which farm it came from, whether it was treated with sulphites or STPP soak chemicals. "Fresh" is just a sign on the ice tray.

How we fix it

Every pack ships with a QR-coded batch sticker. Scan it — you see the harvest date, pond name, ABW, and farm location. FSSAI license printed on every label.

Barrier

The best prawns left the country.

Export-grade A1 prawns went to USA, EU, and Japan. Domestic buyers got the smaller, off-spec stock. So even Indians who liked prawns had never tasted the good ones.

How we fix it

Same A-grade prawns we used to ship abroad. Same farm. Same harvest day. Now sold to Indian kitchens first, at a price that respects both the farmer and the buyer.

Barrier

Prawns get anchored against chicken at ₹250/kg.

People read ₹800/kg and shelf the idea as a "weekend luxury." The category is stuck as an occasion food.

How we fix it

Subscribe & Save makes prawns a weekly habit, not a monthly indulgence. The math changes when it's a routine — and the routine is what builds the category.

Barrier

Festival days, fasting days, family events.

Even non-veg households skip seafood on auspicious days. A weekly box on autopilot doesn't fit unless you can pause it.

How we fix it

Subscriptions skip any week — one tap, no commitment, no waste. Cancel anytime; we never charge for a box you didn't ask for.

Barrier

Indians eat prawns at restaurants, not at home.

Tandoori prawns, chilli garlic, Andhra fry — beloved on a menu, never made in the home kitchen. The category lives in someone else's pan.

How we fix it

Cleaned-to-order prawns + a 10-minute recipe + ingredients you already have. Make it as easy as ordering takeout — but you cook the protein you trust.

Barrier

No specialist brand has owned the prawn aisle.

Zepto, Blinkit, Instamart treat seafood as an afterthought. BigBasket's fish counter is a roulette. Nobody has stood up and said "we only do prawns, and we do them right."

How we fix it

That's ShrimpLi. One category, one promise: export-grade prawns, cleaned to order, harvested the same week. Nothing else on the shelf.

Every barrier here is solvable. Nobody has solved them all at once. That's the gap. We're going to close it.

1. Who we are

We're prawn farmers. We grow them. We sell them.

Our farm sits in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh — the world's shrimp capital. Vannamei and tiger prawns have been grown in these backwaters for generations. Export buyers show up every harvest day with trucks and cheques.

One day we asked the simple question: why are we selling the best prawns on earth to people 10,000 km away, while our own neighbours eat week-old frozen ones from a supermarket?

ShrimpLi is our answer. Same farm, same harvest day, same export-quality prawns — sold directly to Indian kitchens at a price that respects both the farmer and the buyer.

2. The problem

Five hands sit between the farmer and your plate.

The prawns on an Indian supermarket shelf have been through a chain so long it costs more at every stop — and loses freshness at every stop too.

How prawns usually reach you:

FarmerMiddlemanProcessorExporterImporterYour plate

More hands. More markup. More days in cold storage.

How ShrimpLi works:

Our FarmShrimpLiYou

Farmer earns more. You pay less. Prawns stay fresh. That's it.

3. Why now

Trump tariffs. Export markets tightening. Farmers squeezed.

The US is India's largest prawn export market — and new tariffs have hit it hard. Overnight, thousands of tonnes of prawns that were packed for export need a new home. Exporters drop their offer prices. Farmers take the hit.

The irony: the domestic market — 1.4 billion people who love seafood — barely sees these prawns. Not because we can't afford it, but because nobody built the bridge from the pond to the kitchen.

We're building that bridge. Every kilo you buy from us is a kilo the farmer didn't have to sell to a foreign buyer at a discount. You save a farmer, you eat better, and the export-quality finally reaches the country that grew it.

4. Four things we promise

No shortcuts. No chemicals. No fake weight.

❄️
Chilled, Never Frozen
Iced fast after harvest. Stored whole at 0–4°C. Cleaned on order. Days from pond to you — while frozen imports sit for months.
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Full Traceability
Scan the QR on your pack. See the farmer's name, pond ID, harvest date, and what the prawns were fed.
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Zero STPP · Zero Antibiotics
No sodium tripolyphosphate soaking to fake weight. No routine antibiotics. What you buy is what you cook.
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Farmer First
Farmers earn 35–45% more than export-agent rates. We buy direct, no commission chain.
5. Nature hasn't been messed with

A 1957 broiler chicken weighed 905 g at 56 days. A 2005 one weighs 4,202 g.

That's 4× bigger in 50 years — the result of aggressive selective breeding, forced growth, and industrial feed. Prawns haven't changed. Same species, same size, same cycle. We improved the water quality and the feed safety, nothing else.

🍗
Broiler chicken
4× larger
vs. 1957. Genetically optimised for mass and feed efficiency.
vs
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Prawns
Unchanged
Same 15–40 g across decades. No industrial breeding. Just better ponds.
6. The math

You're not just buying prawns. You're funding a movement.

2
Registered farms

Every pond is monitored, every harvest is traceable. No middleman supply chains. No anonymous prawns.

100tons
Annual production

We're not trying to feed the world. We're trying to feed 8,500 Indian families — really well.

20
Farm families

Real people. Working the ponds at 4 AM. Feeding, testing water, harvesting. Your prawns are their livelihood.

The ShrimpLi Promise
₹5
per kg sold
goes directly to
farm workers
×
100,000
kg produced
per year
=
₹5,00,000
directly to the
families who grow
your prawns

If only 8,500 families eat 1 kg of prawns a month — all 100 tons are sold. That's ₹400/month per household. Less than your Netflix subscription.

7. Scan the pack. Meet the farmer.

Every pack has a QR code.

Scan it and see the exact pond your prawns came from, the average body weight at harvest, the feed log, water quality readings, and the farmer's name. The kind of traceability the export market demands — now in your kitchen.

See a sample traceability page →
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8. For the farmers

If you farm prawns, we'd love to work with you.

Every ShrimpLi farm runs on ShrimpLi Farm — our operations app that tracks water quality, feed, minerals, and growth across every pond, every day. The same data the QR code on your pack draws from.

If you're a farmer — or want to start farming and join the network — we'd love to talk.

Visit shrimplifarms.com →
9. Help us spread the word

We don't spend on ads. Every rupee goes to the farmer and your freshness.

If you like what we do, just pass it on. Tell a friend. Share a pack with a neighbour. Post a photo of your dinner. That's all we ask.

The Prawn Truth

Prawns are not expensive. You've been lied to your whole life.

30–50% LESSthan every online seafood store and quick-commerce app — for the same farm-direct quality.
✕ Expensive✕ Seasonal✕ Special-occasion only

Big seafood stores pay exporters, cold storage chains and dark-store delivery layers that each take a cut. We cut out every middleman and pass the difference back to you.

And no, prawns aren't seasonal. India's ponds run 365 days a year — Andhra Pradesh alone harvests every single week.

Why prawns over chicken, mutton, or fish?

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Zero bones

Chicken has bones and skin (~40% waste), lamb ~30%, fish has a spine. Prawns? Peel and eat — or buy them peeled.

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1 g fat vs 13–18 g

10–18× less fat than chicken, lamb, or salmon. Highest protein-to-fat ratio on the protein aisle.

⏱️

3-minute cook time

Dinner on the table before the rice finishes. Chicken needs 25+ min, lamb 60+.

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Zero antibiotics

Industrial chicken is routinely dosed. We keep ours antibiotic-free and never soak in STPP.

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Tiny footprint

1 kg prawns = 1.5 kg feed. Lamb needs 6–7 kg, beef 25+. No forests cleared.

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Traceable to the pond

Scan the QR — see the exact pond, water quality, and feed log. Try that with a chicken breast.

Ready to taste the difference?

From Andhra's ponds to your kitchen. No middlemen. No mystery.