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OM AQUAPONICS

Teaching Nepal to grow its own clean food — since 2018.
A not-for-profit educator, system designer, and builder.

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who we are

Technologists first.
Farmers by necessity.

Om Aquaponics was founded on a simple belief: the surest way to clean food is to teach people to grow it themselves. We design, build, and train — knowledge is the product, and it is meant to be given away.

what is aquaponics?

Fish feed plants.
Plants clean water.

A system of aquaculture in which the waste produced by farmed fish supplies the nutrients for plants grown hydroponically, which in turn purify the water — a closed, living loop.

The aquaponic cycle: fish produce waste, microbes convert waste to fertilizer, plants filter water for the fish

why use aquaponics?

Nature's answer to
expensive organic farming

90%less water than traditional farming

2×the planting yield, growing vertically where land is scarce

0pesticides, and no environmental runoff

5 benefits of aquaponics: high yield, organic fruits, less water, less disease, no weeding

why nepal is built for this

Three climates,
one country

Teraiwarm water — carp, tilapia, pangasius

Hills20–25°C valleys grow greens year-round, no heating or cooling

Mountainscold water — rainbow trout

And where hill villages draw water from springs 300 metres below the settlement, a system that recirculates 95% of its water isn't a luxury — it's the answer.

Sources: MoALD Livestock & Fisheries Statistics 2079/80 · Discover Applied Sciences (2020) · SciDev.Net

we saw this coming in 2018

Nepal's food import bill
has gone vertical

Rs 44B2009–10

Rs 250B2019–20

Rs 360B2024–25

Rs 38.5 billion of that is vegetables alone — food Nepal can grow itself.

Source: Kathmandu Post, Aug 2025 — agricultural import statistics, FY 2024–25

and what we import is not clean

The lab keeps finding
poison on our plates

95.27%organophosphate in long yard beans — safe limit is 35%

93.91%in broccoli, May 2025

600 kgof leafy greens destroyed in one January action

Mandatory import residue testing was introduced in June 2019 — and withdrawn 16 days later. Regulation will not save us. Growing our own will.

Source: Rapid Bioassay of Pesticide Residue lab, Kalimati — Kathmandu Post, Oct 2025 · Jul 2019

and the gap is not only vegetables

Nepal barely eats fish —
because there barely is any

3.5 kgfish per person per year in Nepal

20.5 kgthe global average — six times more

15%annual growth in Nepali aquaculture — the fastest-growing food sector

Even at 3.5 kg, Nepal still imports fish to meet demand. Aquaponics grows the fish and the vegetables — one system, both gaps.

Sources: MoALD Livestock & Fisheries Statistics 2079/80 · Springer, Sustainable Fisheries & Aquaculture in Nepal (2022)

where aquaponics stands in nepal today

Pilots since 2006.
Commercial scale — not yet.

Small systems have run in Syangja, Surkhet, and Kathmandu for years. None has crossed to commercial scale — not because it can't work here, but because every attempt has hit the same four walls:

capital cost unreliable power scarce skills imported feed

Feed is the quiet one — a third of Nepal's fish feed is imported and fingerling supply is thin. These walls are exactly what we've spent years learning to take down.

Sources: IJEAB, Aquaponics — Prospects & Challenges in Nepal (2020) · Aquaponics in Nepal survey (2023) · NACA feed status

why aquaponics has failed here before

The grid is the killer.
So we engineered around it.

Load shedding officially "ended" in 2018 — yet industrial corridors saw 8–10 hour daily cuts in 2025. A recirculating system without power is a fish-kill. Every system we design ships with:

Solar + battery	pumps and aeration ride through multi-hour outages
Generator fallback	stock protection for extended failures
Outage + DO alerts	the FMS phones you before the fish notice

Verified against 2024–25 reporting: NEA industrial load-shedding schedules, corridor outage coverage

三方よし

sanpō-yoshi

Good for the grower.
Good for the buyer.
Good for society.

We are mission-driven: healthy food access for Nepal.

how we organize the mission

One mission,
three hands

Om Aquaponics

not-for-profit · educate

Training, system design, and builds. Teaches any farm to grow clean food — unconditionally.

Ullu Farms

orchestrator · unburden

Logistics, market access, and the farm-management software. Farms grow; Ullu Farms sells and delivers.

Partner farms

growers · owners

Independent farms like East Point Farm — our reference site, growing today, fish arriving next.

any farm, any level

Everything is composable

training only system design system build farm software (FMS) full stack + market access

A farm with its own buyers can take just the software. A farm starting from zero can take everything. Every tier is a doorway into the network.

our strategy

We publish
the blueprint.

System designs, training curriculum, economics — open. Copy us, or work with us — either way Nepal wins. The mission is complete when the imports stop, not when a competitor does.

धन्यवाद · ありがとうございます

Let's grow clean food
for Nepal — together.

Om Aquaponics · aquaponicsnepal.com
Ullu Farms At East Point Farm