High tech farms are no longer unusual in Singapore. In fact they have been sprouting up like mushrooms over the past five years. While many of the innovative farms in the city state still have to become profitable, a vertical shrimp farm has achieved price parity with coastal aquaculture ponds in Indonesia or Vietnam. This is thanks to an AI operated system which controls day to day operations.
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00:00At this test site for a fully automated indoor shrimp farm, there are no more surprises.
00:08Two years after the start of the project, the team, led by founder John Diener, is going
00:14to market.
00:15In the second half of this year, we will have 60 of these tanks.
00:19And then there's a robotic gantry that goes up and down the middle of that racking system.
00:23No, no people are touching the tank.
00:25It's running autonomously the whole time.
00:27The farm is located in a harbour warehouse.
00:30The shrimp grow in these tanks under almost perfect conditions and only need half as long
00:37to reach market size as in conventional open-air farms.
00:41An AI-controlled computer system constantly measures and improves their conditions.
00:48Underwater cameras track the development of the shrimp.
00:51The team collects so much data that only an AI system can make sense of it.
00:56This is a system that the more it runs, the better it gets.
00:59A bit like a Tesla car.
01:01The price of the shrimp is already competitive, but the system's biggest advantage is yet
01:06to come.
01:07It can be set up anywhere in the world, eliminating the cost of expensive supply chains.
01:15This batch is being sent out to restaurants near the city.
01:19Just hours after they come out of the water, customers here can enjoy raw prawns.
01:25With pickled green chilli and a little horseradish and lime.
01:28So we always tell them where the prawns come from and that it's locally farmed in Singapore,
01:33which is different.
01:34Like you can't, most things that are farmed in Singapore, you don't want to eat.
01:40I mean, the waters here aren't the greatest, right?
01:44Back at the shrimp farm behind the busy Singapore harbour, John Diener takes a closer look at
01:50the seaweed filtration system.
01:53The different algae species here allow the farm to operate a zero-discharge recirculating
02:00system.
02:01The shrimp farm has been using the same water for over two years, hence the distinctive
02:06colour.
02:07Both the seaweed and the shrimp are regularly tested for diseases, but so far the farm has
02:13had no problems.
02:15This is a crucial difference to conventional shrimp farms, which often have to use antibiotics.
02:21John Diener worked in the shrimp industry for 10 years, until he decided that shrimp
02:26farming needed a new approach, one with competitive costs and minimal environmental impact.
02:33Sometimes we see the shrimp, they kind of like to just float up with the bubbles and
02:36then go around and then float up again and go around and float up again.
02:40It's almost like they're kind of having fun.
02:43The team is already thinking about applying its AI farming system to chickens or cattle.
02:49But first they want to breed their own shrimp, instead of buying young shrimp from Thailand.
02:56According to the two founders, aquaculture is just the beginning for this new generation
03:01of agricultural systems, in which the computer is the farmer.