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Indonesia’s seafood farming industry faces a ‘technology gap’ — and startups are raising big bucks to fill it – CNBC

January 31, 2023 by Technology

An employee refills a robotic dispenser by eFishery, an agritech startup, at a fish farm in Subang Regency in West Java, Indonesia, in June 2022. The startup helps farmers enhance their processes through automatic feeders and mobile apps.Dimas Ardian|Bloomberg|Getty Images Indonesia’s tech start-ups are reeling in big cash in seafood farming. That should not come as a surprise– the island chain is home to among the world’s longest shorelines and over 18,000 islands and islets.But there’s another reason: A”technology gap “is holding the market back from realizing its large potential, according to financiers and startups that CNBC spoke to.Last year, numerous start-ups raised countless dollars from big name investors

to fill that space: eFishery($90 million in Series C), Aruna( $30 million in follow-on Series A), Delos ($8 million in seed extension)and FishLog($3.5 million in pre-Series A). “Indonesia is the second biggest wild catch producer in the world after China.

And we are third in aquaculture production after China and India. But if we speak about exports in regards to value, we are just 12th place in the world, “stated Farid Naufal Aslam, co-founder and CEO of Aruna, a fisheries e-commerce startup. Aquaculture is the regulated growing of aquatic organisms such as fish and shellfish, particularly for human consumption.Aquaculture production and exports by nation in 2020 Aquaculture( animals, not including algae)Leading producing countries in 2020 Top exporting countries in 2020 1. China 2. India Norway 3. Indonesia Vietnam 4. Vietnam Chile 5. Bangladesh India Sources: FAO, Statista”A great deal of choices made are based upon gut feeling or what forefathers have been

providing for the previous 60 years,” stated Guntur Mallarangeng, co-founder and CEO of shrimp farm management company Delos.And he’s not alone in thinking that.”Indonesia’s fisheries market has a lot of old-style gamers that have actually handed down standard business practices from generation to generation,”said Yinglan Tan, founding managing partner and CEO of Singapore-based Insignia Ventures Partners, which purchased FishLog.Helping farmers

‘grow’Those in Indonesia’s fisheries market require more efficient technology and better procedures, according to Tan.

“The only way that the industry can grow is when the farmers grow. If the farmers don’t grow and broaden their businesses, we can’t actually produce more fish,”said Gibran Huzaifah Amsi El

Farizy, creator and CEO of eFishery, an aquatech startup.eFishery helps farmers enhance their processes through

automated feeders and mobile apps. The automatic feeders find the

cravings levels of fish and shrimp through their movements, which prevents an issue more common in the manual process: over -and under-feeding. Learn more about tech and crypto from CNBC Pro Farizy began his own catfish

pond in 2009 while he was

a trainee to supplement his family’s earnings. By the time he finished, he was handling 76 ponds, and started checking out how he could utilize tech to help farmers.He then built the prototype for the automated feeder in 2012 and launched it in 2013.”The feeding costs consist of 70%-90% of the overall expenses.

So [automatic

feeding] can increase the efficiency and lower the expenses,”Farizy said. He declared that the automatic feeders

can minimize the feeding expenses by 28 %. Aruna, for its part, helps to connect Indonesia’s small aquaculture farmers to purchasers. It declares it works with 40,000 fisherman throughout 170 locations.Indonesia has the puzzle pieces to end up being a worldwide leader in aquaculture and seafood production. As soon as we determine how to put them together, we need to be able to become a seafood powerhouse in the global market.Guntur Mallarangeng Co-founder and CEO of Delos Small fisheries comprise about 90% of the total number of fishers, according to the Marine Policy journal of ocean policy research studies

.”In regards to efficiency and performance, they are still extremely traditional, “Aslam said.He claimed that farmers who dealt with Aruna have had the ability to sell their catch by as much as 50 %more. And according to a report by the Centre for Impact Investing and Practices, Singapore Management University and Accenture, fishermen have actually achieved a 3-to 12-fold boost in earnings through Aruna.

“Farmers will produce what the marketplace needs. It makes the supply chain more effective, and increases the earnings of the fishermen because they understand the type of fish they have to capture and what they can cost a greater price,”Aslam said.Potential to be a global leader Though the country

makes use of only 7.38%of its total possible location for aquaculture, it already ranks amongst the most productive countries in aquaculture production, according to a 2016 report

by market research firm Ipsos.”With the best transfer of understanding and innovation of best aquaculture practices, Indonesia is effectively placed to combine its standing as one of the leading aquaculture

countries on the planet,”

the report said.Aayush Kapoor, vice president at

Sequoia Southeast Asia– which purchased eFishery– is likewise” bullish “on the market.”Indonesia being among the largest exporters of fish and shrimp in the

world is arguably a higher margin opportunity. And the federal government is likewise supportive towards

Indonesia becoming an export economy in numerous sectors including aquaculture, “he said.”Indonesia has the puzzle pieces to end up being an international leader in aquaculture and seafood production. As soon as we determine how to put them together, we need to be able to become a seafood powerhouse in the global market,”stated Delos’Mallarangeng.

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