Helps address climate change
What are your implemented practices under the principle climate change?
- “Climate change resilience”
- Reduced Inputs (Aquaculture)
- Climate Preparedness
- Ship
- Deforestation free
- Climate Mitigation
- Climate change preparedness
- Increased biodiversity
- Habitat creation
- Reduced air travel
What are your goals of practices to be implemented under principle climate change?
- Carbon footprint
- Reduced Food Miles
- Carbon sequestration/carbon sink
- Water footprint
What is your story in promoting principle climate change?
Together with farmers, we are creating climate change resilience strategy and tools to support farmers with capacity and preparedness through increasing capacity of farming practices, farming and treatment guideline according to weather forecast in one year round and weather early warning system.
Supports global ecosystems and co-exists with wildlife
What are your implemented practices in principle ecosystems?
- Increased Water Conservation
- Pond
- Good aquaculture practices
- Organic Non Fed
- Water Quality (Improved)
- Visual Monitoring
- Escape Management
- Create habitat
- Appropriate Siting
- Extensive/Traditional
- Ecosystem balance
- Inland pond culture
- Double Netting
- Non-Lethal Barrier
- Best Water Quality
- Cycle Break
- Emergency Barrier
What are your goals of practices to be implemented under principle ecosystems?
- Erosion Control
- Growth Optimization
- Growth rate
- Oxygen – increased
- Natural Filtration
What is your story in promoting principle ecosystems?
Our black tiger shrimps are not fed using commercial feed. The system is zero input and depends fully on natural feed grown in the pond. Our farmers use organic fertilizer and probiotics to enhance the water quality. With adjacent locations to mangroves and coastal areas, our farmers and company are committed to no deforestation at any scale. Mangrove rehabilitation and replantation are conducted every year in collaboration with local authorities. Our farms are not established in protected habitats and have not resulted from deforestation activity since the beginning of our establishment. As our practices are natural, organic, and zero input, farms coexist with surrounding biodiversity which increases the volume of polyculture and mangrove coverage area. Farmers’ groups, along with the company, conduct regular benthic assessments, river cleaning, and mangrove planting.
Effluent
Enhances Flavor and Nutrition
What are your implemented practices in principle flavor and nutrition?
- Thawed Once
- Processing Facility
- Frozen Processing
- Trace Minerals
- Food Uniformity
- Frozen Peak Freshness
What is your story in promoting principle flavor and nutrition?
Farms are owned and operated by smallholder farmers registered as members of the company with a requirement to follow the best practices standards of Ecoshrimp and the Asian Seafood Improvement Collaborative (ASIC) to ensure product quality. There is no use of chemicals and other additives in our ponds. The practices are monitored and evaluated regularly with regular assessments on our farms. Middlemen are connected to the supply chain by being recruited as farmer coordinators with a mandate to monitor practices and extend shrimp stocking and harvest support from the company. This inclusion of middlemen is the first sustainable model that has not been established yet in Indonesia.
Optimizes impact on water resources and nutrient cycles
Describe your goal in principle water quality.
- Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA)
- Shrimp/Prawn
- Waste Management
- Monitoring (Aquaculture)
- Shrimp (ingredient)
- Effluent
- Wastewater treatment
- Polyculture
- Organic Practices
- Water Monitoring (Increased)
- Carrying capacity
- Incoming water / Inlet
- Nutrient uptake
- Water Quality
What are your goals of practices to be implemented under principle water quality?
- Silviculture
- Integrated Agriculture (Aquaculture)
- Impact research
What is your story in promoting principle water quality?
Water quality is sourced from natural seawater with dependency on the tidal system. Water is treated to adjust pH and alkalinity before stocking.
Describe your goal in principle safe food source.
- Post Larvae (shrimp)
- Mercury – Reduced
- Contaminant Testing
- Heavy Metals
- Mercury (None)
- Biosecurity
- Disease Management
- Anti-inflammatory
- Anti-microbials/anti-parasitics
- Antibiotic free
- Net/Barrier Inspection
- No Inputs
- Heavy metals – reduced
- Low PCBs
- PCR Test
- Record keeping
- Specific pathogen free
- Specific pathogen resistant
- Transfer permit
What is your story in promoting principle safe food source?
With a zero input system, there are no additional chemicals, such as antibiotics, used on our farms. All harvests are fresh and organic without any chemical additives, making our conditions closer to the actual living requirements for shrimps within adjacent mangrove areas. Farms are owned and operated by smallholder farmers registered as members of the company with a requirement to follow the best practices standards of Ecoshrimp and the Asian Seafood Improvement Collaborative (ASIC) to ensure product quality. There is no use of chemicals and other additives in our ponds. The practices are monitored and evaluated regularly with regular assessments on our farms. Middlemen are connected to the supply chain by being recruited as farmer coordinators with a mandate to monitor practices and extend shrimp stocking and harvest support from the company. This inclusion of middlemen is the first sustainable model that has not been established yet in Indonesia.
Advances animal welfare
Describe your goal in principle animal welfare.
- Humanely harvested
- Optimized Stocking density
- Harvest (Aquaculture)
What are your goals of practices to be implemented under principle animal welfare?
What is your story in promoting principle animal welfare?
Farmers are organized into clustering systems with communal disease management. Across both regencies, our farmers use one practice that supports communal disease management. Shrimps are given best water quality and culture condition. Our harvests are immediately frozen with ice flakes in layers in cool boxes.
Prioritizes inclusion, equality, and fair treatment of workers
What are your implemented practices in principle fair treatment?
- Maternity/Paternity leave
- Occupational Training
- No bonded labor
- Safe working condition
- Worker safety
- Smallholder farmer
- Gender equity
What are your goals of practices to be implemented under principle fair treatment?
- Financial Aid / Scholarship
- Mentorship
- Living wage
- Mentorship (women – non binary)
What is your story in promoting principle fair treatment?
The company ensures no child labor and forced labor in our processing plants. The practices are proven by ASIC standards’ implementation. Company ensure implementation of safe working conditions by applying representative of workers to health and safety and conduct regular health and safety training. The practices are proven by ASIC standards’ implementation.
Builds resilience and opportunity in local communities
What are your implemented practices in principle local resiliency?
- Community benefits
- Resource Sharing
- Farmer livelihood
- Women economic empowerment
- Community Engagement
- Community Livelihood
- Smallholder farmer (aquaculture)
What are your goals of practices to be implemented under principle local resiliency?
- Regional Food Security
- Food Security
- Financial Products and services
What is your story in promoting principle local resiliency?
Our CSR Policy main aims including below:
• Creating the welfare of the farming community.
• Creating the welfare of the company’s employees.
• Increase the capacity building of farmers in managing their farms.
• Maintaining environmentally friendly practices for traditional tiger shrimp farming for future generations.
• Build, strengthen and improve the quality of communication between stakeholders in the supply chain of PT. Alter Trade Indonesia’s member and create mutually beneficial relationships between stakeholders.
Preserves the quality and story of the product throughout the supply chain
What are your implemented practices in principle preserving story and quality?
- Identity preserved – Place
- Traceability
- Transparency
- Aquaculture Improvement Projects (AIPs)
- Safe storage and handling
- Black tiger shrimp
- Locally produced
- Whiteleg shrimp
- Storied Product
- Cold Chain
- Cold Chain Distribution
What are your goals of practices to be implemented provide under principle preserving story and quality?
What is your story in promoting principle preserving story and quality?
Traceability is embedded in intensive records and documentation have become available to buyers.
Creates co-products beyond seafood
What are your implemented practices in principle co-products?
What are your goals of practices to be implemented under principle co-products?
What is your story in promoting principle co-products?
Our harvests are immediately frozen with ice flakes in layers in cool boxes. Boxes are equipped with paper records and coding for traceability. We ensure that our harvests are processed with the utmost care at <-18 degrees Celsius.
