How we work

Our approach

Eight rules. Each one exists because we watched what happens without it.
01

Resource before design

We test water, power, access and market distance before anyone draws a layout.

Prevents A facility built to fit a subsidy, on a site that cannot carry it.

The cheapest correction is the one made before the budget is committed.
Beel fish yields: 221 kg per hectare unstocked and 450 stocked, against an assessed potential of 1,000 to 1,500
02

Built for the operator

Technology is chosen for the person who will run it on a wet Tuesday in August.

Prevents A system that needs a technician the location cannot keep.

Ask who runs this on a wet Tuesday in August. The answer is a design input.
03

We install what we specify

We source, adapt, install, calibrate and service, then train the people who use it.

Prevents Good equipment idle under a tarpaulin, waiting on a spare from another state.

Assam has 538 fisheries units. Nine of them keep fish cold.
Assam fisheries units by type: nine of 538 units keep fish cold
04

Accountable past commissioning

Our work runs through the first production cycles, measured against the design numbers.

Prevents A unit that gets inaugurated and never reaches capacity.

A facility gets inaugurated once. It has to produce every season after that.
05

Buyer before stocking

Grade, volume, price and payment terms are settled while the plan is still on paper.

Prevents A good harvest sold at a distress price on the one day it has to move.

Fish is committed to the water six to ten months before it is sold. Everything after stocking is a smaller decision.
About 30 percent of catch value reaches the working fisher, against a 60 percent entitlement
06

Quality on record

Audits, water logs, seed lot numbers and pre harvest tests from day one.

Prevents An auditor asking for a record nobody kept.

A buyer does not buy a promise of quality. They buy the record of it.
The four rung compliance ladder and the commercial door each rung unlocks
07

Named roles, no gaps

Global Association of MSMEs (GAMSME) leads enterprise and market, SLRD holds the community, we hold the technical side.

Prevents Three partners on a project and nobody answerable for the part that failed.

Three partners on a project, and nobody answerable for the part that failed. We write the roles down instead.
GAMSME, SLRD and Living Roots Network with their roles separated into three columns
08

Honest when it is a no

If the site, the power or the operator cannot carry a project, we say so before you spend.

Prevents An expensive lesson you could have had for the price of a site visit.

We would rather lose the assignment than build something that cannot run.
A pond funded without a buyer produces a glut. The same pond funded against a posted requirement produces a contract.

Seven steps, start to first sale

What this means for you

A department or mission
A straight answer before sanction, and a partner still there at production.
A bank or funder
Project documents built on fieldwork, with assumptions your team can test.
A producer company
Infrastructure your members can run, and a quality record buyers accept.
A private promoter
An honest read before you spend, and one party responsible throughout.
A technology provider
A partner who can localise, install, service and prove your product here.

Tell us about your project

We will tell you what we think, including when the answer is that we are not the right partner.

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