Rooted in the Pondside Realities
Aqua Saathi, led by experienced team who organizes small-scale farmers into Smart Clusters that transform data into trust, enabling better farming decisions, lower production costs, and stronger disease prevention.
We are rebuilding trust in small-scale farmers—ensuring their hard work is recognized, valued, and rewarded. Through collective action, we are reconnecting farmers to the prosperity they deserve.
Our Core Values
Trust & Transparency
Building confidence through integrity, accountability, and trusted data.
Collective Action
Strengthening farmer organizations to create shared prosperity.
Dignity & Inclusion
Ensuring every farmer has the opportunity to participate, lead, and thrive.
Sustainability
Advancing climate-smart aquaculture through science, technology, and environmental stewardship.
Our Smart Cluster Advantages
With Aqua Saathi Smart Clusters, farmers no longer rely on guesswork—every decision is supported by real-time pond data.
Vision
Building resilient communities where every small-scale shrimp-farming family can thrive with dignity, security, and hope.
Mission
To build a network of Aqua Saathi Smart Clusters that transform shrimp farming through trust, technology, traceability, and collective action—connecting smallholders to finance, insurance, premium markets, and a more resilient future.
Numbers That Reflect Our Impact
Organize
Action: Mobilize smallholders into structured "Smart Clusters."
Outcome: Unlocks economies of scale, shared governance, and collective biosecurity.
Digitize & Verify
Action: Deploy real-time pond monitoring and traceable digital records.
Outcome: Transforms undocumented farms into verifiable, de-risked assets.
Facilitate & Finance
Action: Coordinate group input sourcing, tailored insurance, and ecosystem services.
Outcome: Unlocks low-interest, data-backed capital through formal financial institutions.
Connect Markets
Action: Link transparent, traceable clusters directly to premium buyers.
Outcome: Maximizes farmer incomes through direct, secure supply chains.
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Farmer’s Diaries
Stay updated with our latest cluster meetings, training programs, and community activities.
Meet "Vannamei Thirupati" of Sreerampuram
For more than two decades, Mr. Konduru Thirupati has been a trusted voice in his farming community. Known locally as "Vannamei Thirupati," he champions a simple but powerful belief:
By promoting early disease reporting, farmer cooperation, and collective action, he has helped create a stronger and more resilient shrimp farming cluster.
Leadership. Transparency. Community Action.
These are the values that make him a true Aqua Saathi Farmer Champion.
Community Action in Mathsyapuri
A farmer meeting in Mathsyapuri identified a key barrier to farm registration—informal lease agreements. Through collective discussion, farmers and pond owners committed to formalizing agreements, exploring bulk seed procurement, and improving access to insurance and government schemes.
Key Theme: Farmers Solving Farmers' Challenges.
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Be Part of the Change - Whether you want to lead change as a cluster leader, collaborate as a partner, or support the movement, we would love to connect with you.
You lead with confidence. We guide with experience.