The fish farm that feeds the farm around it.
One 40ft container on 120 square metres of your land: 5,000 catfish in water that never leaves the loop, and 2,000 litres of live microbial liquid drawn off it every day.
- Fish and fertilizer leave Abu Dhabi today.
- Technology licensed from the Hosha group.
- Chemistry, culture and DNA sequencing.
The same water grows the fish and carries the fertilizer.
Imported fertilizer is priced in dollars and your harvest is not. A container makes the input on the ground that uses it.
The working site in Abu Dhabi.
Every photograph carries what it shows and where it was taken. Where nothing records the date, the caption says that instead of guessing. Both archives hold the complete set, not a selection of the flattering frames.
A litre will not replace a kilo of urea.
What the litre carries instead
- 217
- Potassium
- 17
- Phosphorus
- 30m+
- Plate count, at the laboratory's reporting ceiling rather than a measurement
- 952
- Bacterial taxa by DNA sequencing, 516 of them resolved to species
So the job is efficiency, not substitution.
The supplied protocol bands 15 to 25 litres a hectare into the starter fertilizer line at planting and targets a 20 to 30 percent cut in synthetic starter nitrogen. That is a protocol target, not a result. The agronomist who wrote it wrote it for his own farm, and no completed trial stands behind it.
Each figure with its standing printed beside it.
Sized to the farm you actually have.
- 1,000
- 2,000
- 5,000
- 400
- 800
- 2,000
- 4,000
- 8,000
- 20,000
- 25 to 30
- 50 to 60
- about 120
- 6,000
- 12,000
- 30,000
- 1 to 50
- 100 to 200
- 500 and up
- 90,000
- 175,000
- 350,000
Operational about three months from contract, one trained operator, one-year warranty on tank, pump, filtration and controls. The catfish row is a planning figure of four batches at five tonnes, with the two smaller sizes scaled from it by stocking density. Lease terms are quoted on application. Royalty is USD 2 a litre of fertilizer on both the buy and lease paths, and none on fish.
Two cash crops from the same container.
Same footprint, same operator, two markets that move independently. Until the operating cost per litre is metered we do not claim that one pays for the other.
Catfish, raised without antibiotics
Four batches a year from a 40ft container, five tonnes a batch by plan. Closed fresh water, so nothing comes in with the water and nothing needs treating out of it.
Live microbial soil input
An owner produces at container operating cost plus USD 2 a litre in royalty, on the buy path and the lease path alike. There is no royalty on fish, and the sale price is quoted on application.
Nobody should buy this to save money on urea.
The calculator takes your crop, your price and your nitrogen programme, guesses none of them, and prints the substitution result as the negative it is.
Negative on every supply route.
Break-even needs a yield response instead, and no completed yield trial stands behind one yet. The paired-plot trials that will measure it publish either way.
Before it was a container, it was a cow.
Generations on the same hills above Alba, and the ground that fed the first vineyards still feeds ours. For most of that time it meant the manure of our own cows, season after season, into the same rows.
So this generation put a container on that land. It grows catfish and draws a live microbial liquid off the same water, and we publish the laboratory reports, the protocol and the trials that will test it, whichever way they go.
What an owner asks first.
How long until I am producing?
Where can I install one?
What does a container cost to run?
What is the warranty, and what is the royalty?
What happens if you disappear?
Put a container on your land.
Applications go to the deployment team in Abu Dhabi. One call settles fit, size, water source and terms.