INNOWWIDE AQUASURE: Improving the resilience and sustainability of smallholder farmers

Aquaculture is currently the fastest growing food production system globally even replacing traditional fisheries. Innovations in the sector are developed mainly for large producers and are barely implemented by small and medium producers due to their limited investment capacity, although they represent 96% of fish-farmers worldwide.

AquaSure® system has been the main outcome of this project which was aimed to develop a tailor-made water filtration system to remove solid residues for small and medium rainbow trout farmers ponds and thus, increase productivity and decrease their environmental impact.

BIOAZUL has designed and adapted this technology with the collaboration of ASTRUCEL, an association of 22 small and medium producers of rainbow trout, located in Ginebra, Cauca Valley (Colombia).

AquaSure® system, based on Filtration Drums technology, has a modular designed to reduce the investment costs, to be adapted to the production capacity and to reduce operation and maintenance costs thanks to a self-adaptive mode. These features allow farmers to purchase AquaSure® system according to their investment capacity and production requirements. This modular design also facilitates the system transport, especially for not well connected and difficult to reach locations, and its assembly on-site.