Are you an aquafarmer going through the grind of cyclical water transfers, discharge of polluting waste water, heavy use of feed and antibiotics… Sounds familiar?
Conventional aquaculture is cumbersome, expensive and unsustainable. The practices could pollute and destroy land & water ecosystems in growing areas. SISTA360 does 360° revolutionization of aquaculture by making it more sustainable, transparent, traceable and profitable for all stakeholders – farmer, buyer, exporter and consumer – by intelligent application of artificial intelligence, science, technology, R&D, big-data and modern aquaculture techniques. SISTA360 Protocol is developed in association with global research institutes and technology majors combining practice based proprietary knowledge of over 40 years with latest innovations in the field of aquaculture.
SISTA360 Protocol is science-based, tested, proven and has made world records!
It is all about sustainability!
The fundamental principal behind SISTA360 is mimicking the natural aquatic system, suitably aligning to the local ecological conditions of each farm, by following the principal of circularity. SISTA does continuous R&D using big-data to address sustainability challenges in aquaculture combining various strategies and technologies to achieve better quality and quantity in a cost effective manner. The ground situation in the farm is extremely dynamic and changes on a day to day basis due to the constant changes in air, water and land parameters which are sensitive to weather conditions. Hence unlike the conventional production practice which is more static and rigid, a successful science-based production protocol is the one which is equally sensitive and dynamic.
SISTA360 Protocols are extremely dynamic set of variety of strategies, procedures and processes which will be applied in accordance to the dynamic on-ground situations of the farm. Different set of SISTA360 Protocols are applicable to conventional out-door farms and new-age indoor farms. Similarly different protocols are applicable depending on the geographical region of the growing area, anywhere in the world.
SISTA360 Protocol intelligent aquaculture is aimed at achieving the cardinal 3Cs of sustainable aquaculture.
1. Circular Production
By mimicking natural aquatic system, SISTA360 Protocol makes aquaculture circular. It uses natural microorganisms to breakdown waste matters and uses IMTA strategies to clean-up both suspended and sedimented waste matter. The protocol promotes blooming of zooplankton which is natural feed for aquatic animals. The zero-waste strategy makes the pond ecosystem clean and pure thereby allowing the same water to be used crop after crop. Unlike the conventional production, SISTA360 Protocol dramatically reduces water and external feed consumption in aquaculture and also makes it low on water and land pollution.
2. Clean Protein
Clean pond water substantially reduces likelihood of diseases in fish and shrimp. Further, SISTA’s proprietary natural formulations strengthen the health of the aquatic beings. This ensures that the output which followed SISTA360 Protocol is completely free from antibiotics and is high-quality, healthy and safe protein.
3. Carbon Responsible
Unlike conventional methods, SISTA360 Protocol follows highly sustainable aquatic production processes using natural inputs which makes aquaculture highly carbon-responsible. If the farm uses SISTA360 Protocol coupled with renewable energy sources like solar, the entire aquaculture production can be made carbon-negative.
Challenges faced by a typical aqua-farmer is multi-fold.
• Pollution and ecological damage
Conventional aquaculture owing to sedimentation of organic and antibiotic wastes, requires pond water to be disposed after every crop cycle of 3-4 months. This pose immense adverse ecological impact in growing areas by polluting land and water bodies, potentially rending the growing areas unusable in long-run.
• Degeneration of pond
Years of following conventional practices can degenerate the aquaculture ponds, reduce productivity and eventually forcing the farmer to abandon it and potentially giving a body blow to the farmer’s livelihood itself. This also leads to scarcity of economically viable farms/ ponds.
• Resource and cost inefficiency
Conventional aquaculture spends heavily on external feeding and disease management. This has cascading impact from high number of labour usage to feed and antibiotic residue deteriorating water quality to problem of waste water management. All of these adds to the cost of farming.
• Yield and productivity challenges
Conventional aquaculture practices are already highly intensive in nature. Further, water quality deterioration owing to conventional practices pose limitations to further improve yield and productivity.
• Middlemen, supply chain and price challenges
Most of the aqua-farmers are highly dependent on middlemen for inputs, credit and sales. This results in lack of control over quality of inputs and services and at the same time put the farmer in a difficult position to obtain the right price for their harvest.
SISTA is perfect solution to address all the above. SISTA360 Protocol follows science based, highly sustainable protocol. The key strategy is to maintain, or even improve the pond-water quality. SISTA360 Protocol improves the water and pond health, reduce need for external feeding and promotes growth of shrimp and fish. Coupled with SISTA B2B Platform, which addresses the middlemen and supply-chain challenges, SISTA360 Protocol can potentially improve farmer profitability by 15-20%*.
* Conditions apply
There are multiple challenges faced by aquaculture buyers and consumers
• Lack of traceability
Since the aqua-farmers are scattered and away from the buyers, whether institutional buyer, exporter or retail buyer, the industry supply-chain is heavily dependent of middlemen. This devoid the buyer and consumer of vital origin-information like who produced, how produced and when produced.
Provides deep traceability
• Safety concerns
With lack of information about the production and supply-chain, buyers and consumers are forced to accept uncertified or false-certified products with no guarantee on safety.
Safety certified
• Food-fraud and lack of transparency
Owing to lack of supply-chain transparency, the buyers can get cheated in terms of quality, quantity, delivery date, false certifications, etc.
Complete transparency and trust
SISTA360 Protocol combined with SISTA B2B Platform provides right solution for all these. SISTA360 Protocol is highly sustainable and does not use any chemicals or antibiotics which make the output completely safe. Further, SISTA has direct connect with the farmer and oversee the SISTA360 Protocol production. Hence for SISTA360 Protocol output, SISTA has access to details from inputs to production to harvest with respect to every lot of production by an aqua-farmer. This provides deep-traceability and supply-chain data transparency.
Want to join the SISTA revolution? SISTA360 Protocol can be implemented by converting the farm in to SISTA Farm and by availing SISTA Farm Management Services.
To start with, you need to do Farmer Registration. Any SILVER or GOLD farmer member can apply for SISTA360 Protocol. Application for SISTA Farm will be evaluated by SISTA. Only those applications which pass the criteria set by SISTA will be approved to be set-up or converted as SISTA Farm. Once approved and after applicable subscription fee is paid, the farmer membership will be upgraded to DIAMOND and will be provided with SISTA Farm Management Services.
Anyone who is interested in aqua-farming can apply. Prior aqua farming experience is not mandatory. The farms can be owned or leased. The farmer can be individual, group of farmers, FPO, cooperative, corporate farm, etc.
• I’m an aqua farmer
Any farmers who has existing aquaculture farm and wants to convert their farm and production system to a more prudent and scientific way of sustainable aquaculture can apply.
Any farmer who has quit aquafarming due to degeneration of ponds, but wants to regenerate it using SISTA360 Protocol and re-enter into aquafarming also can apply.
• I want to be an aqua farmer
New to aquafarming? No prior experience in aquaculture? No problem, SISTA is there to help. Anyone who has enough appropriate space and other facilities to set-up aquaculture farms – out-door or indoor or hybrid – can seek SISTA’s support right from farm-setting up to production support to finance support to sales and marketing. First you may avail SISTA Turn-key service (under SISTA Services) and setup the farm. Once the farm is setup, take SILVER or GOLD membership and proceed to apply for SISTA360 Protocol.
A SISTA Farm is an aquaculture farm which follows SISTA360 Protocol. You too can benefit, so why wait? Apply to convert your aqua-farm as SISTA Farm today.
Farmers stands to gain a plethora of benefits by making their farm as SISTA Farm.
• SISTA Farm Management Services (SISTA FMS)
SISTA360 Protocol is implemented by converting the farm in to SISTA Farm and providing SISTA Farm Management Services. Depending on the type of SISTA Farm, it involves, full time expert technician(s) placed by SISTA at the farm, 24x7 SISTA360 back-end technical support, access to SISTA PondBook App, etc. Click on SISTA Farm Management Services under SISTA Services to know more or click on Contact Us for support.
• Better farm/pond health
Sustained and diligent following of SISTA360 Protocol is proven to improve farm/ pond health there by ensuring sustainable production from the aquaculture pond for longer use-life.
• Regeneration of farm
Sustained and diligent following of SISTA360 Protocol right from pond-preparation for multiple crop cycles has the potential to regenerate ponds which have turned low-productive due to unsustainable usage.
• Improve farming efficiency
Sustained and diligent following of SISTA360 Protocol can make aquaculture farming more resource efficient.
• Better farm output and profitability
Sustained and diligent following of SISTA360 Protocol can potentially improve the yield and profitability.
• Higher price for SISTA360 Protocol produces
Owing to sustainable farming without usage of any antibiotics, traceability, etc, sustained and diligent following of SISTA360 Protocol has the potential of fetching better premiums for such produce when sold through SISTA Exchange.
• Attractive special discounts in SISTA Mart, SISTA Consult & SISTA Services
Farmers who register their farm as SISTA Farm, is eligible to get additional discounts when they use SISTA Mart, SISTA Consult and SISTA Services.
(a) SISTA Assisted Farm: You will manage your farm. You will obtain advises on SISTA360 Protocol and will implement it diligently. You will have SISTA PondBook app to monitor. You will be supported by SISTA back-end team.
(b) SISTA Managed Farm: You will run your farm. SISTA will be placing technician(s) at your farm on exclusive or shared basis for which you will be paying the manpower cost as prescribed by SISTA. You will obtain advises on SISTA360 Protocol and will implement it diligently. You will have SISTA PondBook app to monitor. You will be supported by SISTA back-end team.
Anyone who is interested in aqua-farming can apply. The farms can be owned or leased. The farmer can be individual, group of farmers (or FPOs, Farmer’s Cooperatives, etc) or corporate.
• New and inexperienced in aquafarming (Aquapreneur)
New to aquafarming? No problem, SISTA is there to help. Anyone who has enough appropriate space and other facilities to set-up aquaculture farms – out-door or indoor or hybrid – can seek SISTA’s support right from farm-setting up to production support to finance support to sales and marketing.
• Existing aqua-farmer
Any farmer who has existing aquaculture farm and wants to convert their farm and production system to a more prudent and scientific way of sustainable aquaculture.
• Farmer who want to re-enter aquaculture
Any farmer who has exited aquaculture due to degeneration of farms or any other reason.
Application for SISTA Farm will be evaluated by SISTA. Only those which pass the criteria set by SISTA will be approved to be set-up or converted as SISTA Farm.
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