SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 Volume 15 Number 5 Building a Farm-Based Shrimp Nursery in India Breakthrough in Tilapia Genetics Aquafeed Business Models at TARS 2019 Functional Hydrolysates MCI (P) 010/10/2019 PPS1699/08/2013(022974) ISBN 1793 -0561 Fit for Future Aquafeeds www.aquaasiapac.com Contents 1 Volume 15, Number 5 September/October 2019 MCI (P) 010/10/2019 ISBN 1793 -056 From the editor 2 Can the feed segment lead the aquaculture industry again? News 4 State of the aquafeed industry in Indonesia Shrimp Culture 8 Experiences at a farm-based, pond-type Litopenaeus vannamei nursery in India In Andhra Pradesh, Surendran V, Ravikumar Y, Chandrashekhar JYR and Anantheswara Bhat D report on the development of an on-farm nursery project. A parabiotic positively impacts shrimp production in laboratory and field trials Editor/Publisher 16 Zuridah Merican, PhD Cost benefits justify use as part of a standard operating procedure, says Stephen Newman. 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With only 20% left to be challenged by existing diseases. for operational expenses, any assistance Feed companies have rightly focused on is valued. As 50% of production costs is preventive solutions as they tend to be attributed to feed, feed companies would more efficient. Furthermore, fish do not extend credit to sustain culture operations consume feed once infected and hence, until harvest when farmers would get paid Zuridah Merican mode of delivery of a therapy poses a for their produce. This credit spurred the challenge. However, these functional industry and the risk burden was shared aving just completed The Aquaculture feeds do not seem to be gaining ground. between the farmer and the feed supplier. Roundtable Series (TARS 2019) where It is often compared with insurance that H Feed companies also knew that good we focused on developing a Fit for Future requires upfront payment whether needed seedstock had to accompany feed for a aquafeed industry in Asia, it is timely that or not. Instead, shrimp farmers are prone successful agribusiness and hence, they we take the opportunity to honour the feed to administering their own ‘treatments’ invested in hatcheries to ensure fry was not segment. The feed milling segment is often at the pond side. One must question why a limiting factor in the supply chain, and regarded as a support service for supplying there is this trust deficit between farmers later added genetics and breeding into the the correct formulated compound feed to and the feed companies. This situation chain. ensure optimal growth of the species, but must be resolved in the near future as they have been more than that. If we rewind There seemed to be an unwritten business Asian aquaculture may be losing ground to the 1970s, it was President Enterprise contract and relationship, and the feed as a cost leader. Asian shrimp provides the Corporation, Taiwan that produced shrimp companies played a supporting role, best example where survival rates have feed and promoted monodon shrimp as well as catalysing the growth of the drastically been reduced due to disease. farming in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. In industry with a push and pull effect. These As a consequence, cost of production has the 1980s, Charoen Pokphand Feeds and feed companies benefitted as feed sales increased and in the impending high supply San Miguel Foods did the same to supply are intrinsically dependent on the growth scenario, Asian shrimp producers may be feed and promote commercial shrimp of the industry, and if the customer base the losers. aquaculture in Thailand and Philippines, grows, feed companies grow too. respectively. Amongst others, these were It is the opinion of Aqua Culture Asia Pacific the godfathers - companies that brought Enter the 21st century with the rise of the that feed companies still have a leading aquaculture to Asia and catalysed the internet and start-up companies – how can role to play. industry. feed companies continue to play a similar role and offer farmers a service they cannot What leadership roles did they take? First access easily? and foremost, they were more international and able to bring new technology prior The aquaculture industry has changed to the age of the internet. Most farms significantly over the past 10 years. were small and focused on day-to-day Sustainability has overtaken quality as operations and they were fragmented. the priority. Not that quality is unimportant There was little exchange of information but everyone today can produce quality between farms or learning from mistakes. products, so much so that, that it has Feed companies provided a platform for become a norm and the expectation, local seminars and farmers to get together. instead of a premium. Asia today is Obviously, these actions were not altruistic focusing on the same feed criteria that as they created markets for their feed and Northern Europe did 30 years ago. There products associated with improving culture is a need for high performance – low conditions. environmental impact feed. The past OUR MISSION We strive to be the beacon for the regional aquaculture industry. We will be the window to the world for Asia-Pacific aquaculture producers and a door to the market for international suppliers. We strive to be the forum for the development of self-regulation in the Industry. September/October 2019 AQUA Culture Asia Pacific 4 News State of the aquafeed industry in Indonesia he aquafeed industry in Asia has always played a supporting role Tin the development of aquaculture. Following the focus on Asia’s aquafeed industry at The Aquaculture Roundtable Series (TARS) in “ We expect 2015 and 2011, this year the program moved on to developing an disruption in industry aquafeed industry that is “Fit for Future”. It is a prerequisite that the causing the oversupply aquafeed industry moves in tandem with aquaculture - catalysing of fish and shrimp and incentivising aquaculture. feeds, when these new companies launch “Asia’s aquaculture sector needs to increase production to supply new products into the fish protein to the estimated 10 billion global population expected Indonesian market by 2050. The aquafeed segment has a supporting role and as such, next year.” feed producers need to keep up with developments,” said Mimid Haris Muhtadi Abdul Hamid, Director of Feeds and Drugs at the Directorate General of Aquaculture (DGA), Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF) in his welcome address to participants at TARS 2019, held in Bali, from August 14-15.