The Concept of Size and Quality of Shrimp for Price

An understanding of size and quality of shrimp is very close with shrimp marketing aspect that is a last stage from shrimp culture to can beginning again at next period. Unlike other commodities, shrimps is a high perishable commodity, with the result that shrimps handling and processing before to be marketed is need fast and simple handling concept in order to avoid decreasing shrimps quality, because quality degradation is significant to shrimp price. Several factors that can influencing shimp quality, are among others :

1. Shrimps are infected by diseases;
   
   
2. Technical treatment influence a moment before harvesting process;
   
   
3. Harvesting time arrangement influence that it reason a mass moulting for shrimps;
   
   
4. Pond bottom condition that it possible reason to scratched shrimps at harvesting process;
   
   
5. Shrimps harvesting method;
   
   
6. Harvesting time;
   
   
7. Colder equipment/ice availibility;
   
   
8. Transportation equipment availibility;
   
   
9. Carrying time.

After pass through harvesting process, then the shrimps to be handled by cold storage division to be sorting based on size and quality to determining standard of shrimp prices.

The meaning of size is the number/amount of shrimps within 1 (one) kilogram weigth , with the result that more bigger the size so the shrimp measurement is more smaller.

Beside the size, another aspect that influencing shrimp price is quality of the shrimps. Quality standard that usually to be used, are :

1. First Quality (FQ), the shrimps on normal condition also its have part of body completely and undamaged;;
   
   
2. Second Quality (SQ), the shrimps on normal condition also its have part of body completely but scratched;
   
   
3. Below Standard (BS), physically the shrimps already damaged or broken.

In line with the concept of size and quality of shrimp, then a total shrimp price can be counted through calculate size percentage and shrimp quality from total weight times price based on it size and quality.

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