List of Indonesian Startups in Agriculture, Fisheries, and Livestock

Excerpts of this song from Koes Plus "People say our land is heaven's land, sticks and stones become plants" it is enough to describe how fertile land in Indonesia is. Thousands of hectares of forest and agriculture adorn the green islands of Indonesia. But it would be in vain if the gift could not provide a decent living for the nation.

Various educations for the science of agriculture, fisheries, and animal husbandry continue to be honed by the nation's children to ensure that the nation's assets are well managed. It doesn't stop there, in this modern era, with a digital approach, even young innovators don't want to lose. With various types of technology products, they try to provide integrated solutions to strengthen the agro sector.

In the middle hyping Technology startups that generally work in the social, trade, games and entertainment sectors, it turns out that not a few are willing to focus on developing systems that help manage agriculture, fisheries and other agro-industries. This time, DailySocial tries to list several Indonesian startups that have successfully launched products for succession in the agriculture, fisheries and animal husbandry sectors. Here is the list:

8villages

Adopt a -based approach social platforms, startup it offers an interactive forum that connects farmers with consumers. Farmers generally live in rural areas, with network infrastructure that is sometimes only at the "medium" limit, this is well managed by 8Villages, because to access these services does not require super-fast internet connectivity, it can even be accessed via SMS and MMS which are available on 2G/3G networks or any data package.

Several other innovations in the field of agriculture are still being produced by 8Villages, both independently and through strategic partnerships that have been developed. One of them is application development Urban Farming Indonesia, which was initiated with East West Seed Indonesia to deal with the shrinking of agricultural land due to the expansion of urban areas. This application is designed to educate and increase awareness of urban communities that farming can be done anywhere, including in the midst of the hustle and bustle of big cities.

There is also a Farmer application, which makes it easy for farmers to consult directly with agricultural experts. Through the Farmers application, land cultivators can ask for help to find out the condition of plants or pest complaints in a very interactive and observative way. In addition, there are many more applications that can be downloaded from 8villages, all of which can be listened to and downloaded HERE.

Angon

Angon.id debuted since October 2016. Combining investment startup concept (fintech) at the same time agriculture (agtech), This Indigo-assisted start-up is trying to provide online services to connect smallholder farmers with urban communities.

Angon.id allows the general public to invest in livestock without having to own a cage. Using the Angon.id application service, users only need to disburse a certain amount of funds in accordance with the agreement to be distributed to farmers who are already Angon.id's business partners. From the explanation of the Angon.id team, the average investor gets return on investment (ROI) of about 5-10 percent per three months.

Blumbangreksa

BlumbangMutual is an IoT (Internet of Things) device that can monitor water conditions in ponds for various types of farms (such as shrimp farms). This device can solve shrimp farming problems by measuring, analyzing and presenting all recommendations based on water quality conditions. BlumbangReksa is designed to help farmers or ranchers to maintain water quality and reduce procedural errors that occur due to human carelessness.

BlumbangReksa was developed by ATNIC which consists of a group of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology students from Gadjah Mada University and is supported by Indmira, a research and technology-based company in the fields of agriculture, environment and renewable energy. The innovation from the city of Yogyakarta became the only Indonesian representative in the 2015 ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) IShow (Innovation Showcase) technology innovator competition.

Ci-Agriculture

Through an analytical approach big data, Ci-Agriculture (a subsidiary of Mediatrac) developed an agricultural management system capable of producing comprehensive analysis based on weather analysis, soil sensor information, as well as satellite and drone imaging that can increase agricultural productivity. The developed system is arranged in three products, namely Crop Accurate, Agritrack and Crop Insurance.

Crop Accurate utilizes a system of sensors, drones, and remote sensing to collect data that will be used by the smart farming system. The system can guide the farming activities of the assisted farmers (bank-assisted communities, microfinance, food producers or independent communities) so that farming activities can be more effective and efficient.

Agritrack is an integrated information system for supply chain leaders agricultural commodities. The system is designed to bridge farmers, distributors, markets and end buyers of commodities by leveraging mobile applications to enter real state data supply, demand, and problems in the field at each point of the path supply. Meanwhile, Insurance is an agricultural insurance product, similar to what already exists in the insurance world. But what makes this product different is that CI-Agriculture bases all its calculations and schemes on technology smart farming, sensor systems and analysis of agricultural potential.

eFisheries

eFisheries using the IoT approach to provide solutions in the fisheries and livestock sectors. This is an automatic fish feeder. This tool not only automates the scheduled feeding with the right dose, but also records each feeding on a regular basis real-time. Users can access feeding data anytime and anywhere. No more problems over-feeding, irregular feeding of fish or diverted feed. Specifically, eFishery seeks to help fish and shrimp farmers, as fish feeding usually accounts for between 50 and 80 percent of the operating costs of a fish farm.

eFishery is also known as startup who often wins various global startup competitions. eFishery's business model is to sell smart feeders to farmers and distributors. Furthermore, like consultants, they also earn income from subscription fees for using software to monitor and analyze fish feeding activities on a regular basis real-time di smartphone or tablets every month. They claim that on average the optimization carried out reduces the amount of food used by up to 21 percent.

Eragano

Eragano is an application mobile devices designed to help farmers obtain information on how to grow crops, help farmers connect to micro-loan facilities, and help sell agricultural products at the best prices to restaurants and hotels. Eragano claims that his party wants to help small farmers, who currently account for more than 15% of Indonesia's population, with solutions end-to-end which ultimately aims to improve the standard of living of farmers and the quality of agricultural products.

Eragano is said to be trying to free the peasants from loan sharks and middlemen who have been a scourge. Post-harvest, Eragano through EraganoStore, a B2B service, helps sell the harvest to restaurants, hotels and caterers at reasonable prices.

Ethanee

Ethanee has a vision to provide solutions to problems in the agriculture and animal husbandry sector, both from the producer side to the consumer side. Not just a digital application in the form of a store online for agricultural and livestock products, but also a comprehensive digital solution that tries to solve the problems of the cash and livestock industry in Indonesia.

Ethanee combines three main business chains from the agriculture and livestock industry, namely the upstream supply chain covering the digitization of livestock and agricultural production activities, post-harvest logistics management and distribution systems to the hands of consumers, or downstream. All of this is expected not only to help buyers such as housewives who shop, but also to maintain the production and distribution process.

iGrow

The easiest overview of the system iGrow is a Farmville game. Yes, iGrow has the same concept as the game. iGrow allows users to grow crops digitally. Users manage and invest land and crops digitally, manage digitally, but agriculture is real. The iGrow dashboard acts as an intermediary between users and land cultivators. The concept is fresh and quite interesting.

New concepts in the agricultural sector can continue to be encouraged to restore self-sufficiency in the agricultural sector. Innovation is considered to be able to make the agricultural sector look classy, ​​especially facilitating the investment path. In fact, in the field, farmers need a lot of support to maximize their cultivation. Although not directly involved in the field, the enthusiasm and participation of the community with the model offered by iGrow is able to provide a decent living for the farmers.

Karsa

Karsa is an application developed as a platform all-in-one for all stakeholders in the agricultural sector. Karsa provides important information for farmers including weather information, prices, news about agriculture, and includes a feature to order agricultural equipment.

In addition to Karsa farmers, it is also designed and prepared for various parties involved in the agricultural sector, such as government officials, owners of agricultural products, producers of agricultural equipment, and other agricultural actors. Apart from the application form mobile devices Karsa is also said to be accessible using the desktop in the form of a web application.

winged bean

Winged bean (or originally named LOFMart - Local Organic Fresh Mart) is a online marketplace quality organic vegetables, fruit, seasonings, chicken products, cutting the conventional distribution chain in traditional markets into a more concise one. Through marketplace It is hoped that all organic vegetable farmers can sell their products directly at competitive prices with ordinary vegetables.

Currently Kecipir claims to have 45 hosts (agents) spread across the Greater Jakarta area, while the number of members is approaching 1000 customers who have placed an order. Kecipir has also opened services in the West Jakarta area with 5 hosts and in May 2016 served North Jakarta and East Jakarta with 10 new hosts.

With system marketplace implemented by Kecipir, this should be more profitable for the farmers who can get a higher selling price than the previous sales method. Consumers themselves can get a price whose value can be 50% lower than the selling price in supermarkets or supermarkets in general.

FiveKilos

FiveKilos has a vision to cut the distribution chain of agricultural commodities. This solution allows farmers to directly sell their crops to consumers at competitive prices. LimaKilo's two main services are Farmers Market and Microfunding. The Microfunding program opens up opportunities for anyone to jointly provide capital loans to farmers registered with LimaKilo partners with a nominal value of 3-5 million each.

myAgro

myAgro which was founded by Uray Tiar Fahrozi has a unique and different concept from the existing agricultural investment platforms, namely prioritizing the concept of sharia investment and minimal risk guarantees. Conceptually since the beginning of this year, according to the Founder's explanation, the development of MyAgro is based on the fact that there is a lack of land optimization.

Uray said there is a big problem experienced by Indonesia, namely the management of natural resources that is not optimal. One of them is in the form of unused land in Indonesia covering an area of ​​more than 14 million hectares. The sad thing is that land in Indonesia is actually fertile and productive land, which can be processed to meet domestic food needs.

The second reason given by Uray is that the empowerment of farmers is very minimal, such as subsidies for seeds, availability of fertilizers, and very low buying prices from middlemen. From that anxiety, he and his team made MyAgro a platform that connects investors, consumers, and farmers.

Monitor Prices

a application which can be used for bargaining, and buying and selling between raw material providers and farmers, equipped with a price database that is the reference for this application, which is expected to facilitate farmers in their transactions. Price Monitor targets four users at once, namely consumers, farmers, the Village Unit Office (KUD) and the government.

TaniHub

TaniHub is a channel E-commerce which makes it easier for breeders and farmers to sell their produce directly to the community. This service was developed at the same time to provide competitive selling prices to consumers. The strategy is to cut the distribution chain. Several farmers, one of them in Bogor, have become suppliers of goods at TaniHub. In the future, TaniHub will continue to strive to collaborate with many more farmers and ranchers in Indonesia.

Channel E-commerce TaniHub provides at least six sales categories, namely organic vegetables, non-organic vegetables, livestock products, non-organic fruits, and organic foodstuffs. By selling directly to consumers, besides being able to provide quality products and competitive prices from the consumer side, it is hoped that farmers and ranchers will get a more reasonable and profitable selling price for their products, so that they can develop their land significantly.