Aqua Exchange

Category:

Service Provider
Technology Provider

Focus:

Economic
Environment

Location:

Andhra Pradesh
National

Organization Description:

Aqua Exchange is an Indian aquaculture technology company providing full-stack services to shrimp farmers through affordable IoT solutions, crop finance, input procurement, and farm-to-market logistics. Its platform includes pond-side sensors, mobile apps for farmers, data analytics, and a marketplace linking farmers to hatcheries, feed mills, and processors. By digitizing farm operations, Aqua Exchange helps reduce production costs, improve disease management, and give smallholder farmers better access to inputs, credit, and fair prices, while generating data useful for traceability and sustainability.

Role in Indian Shrimp Aquaculture: AquaExchange’s flagship products—PowerMon (aerator monitoring) and AquaBot (automated solar-powered feeder)—currently automate the equivalent of 12% of India's shrimp farming industry, with additional offerings including Vibrio test kits, probiotics, and traceability systems. Beyond hardware, the company has layered on financial services, partnering with banks and NABARD to extend credit using farm-level data as the basis for risk scoring, and developed disease-specific crop insurance. It is also a partner in the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch Partnership Assurance Model in Andhra Pradesh, and a GDST member aligning its traceability data with international buyer standards.

Contact: aquaexchange.com/contact

Website: aquaexchange.com