The Aquaculture Roundtable Series® (TARS), Asia’s leading aquaculture event is back in person with the focus on Asia’s aquafeed industry in 2022. TARS 2022 – Aquafeeds: A New Equilibrium will take place in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam from October 5-6.
Asia’s aquafeed industry is facing unprecedented challenges arising not only from the pandemic but also global trends such as rising prices of major feed ingredients and high freight costs as well as the push to use more sustainable feed ingredients. The ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict is creating more pressure on supply and energy costs.
Just as critical is the need to future proof the industry for the next decade, among them with sustainable feeds to meet consumer demand and reduce its carbon footprint.
“Particularly for the aquafeed sector, these supply chain disruptions and inflationary pressures force feed millers to constantly look at alternatives ranging from novel feed to raising feed prices,†says Zuridah Merican, PhD, editor of Aqua Culture Asia Pacific and chair of TARS 2022. “In Asia, where the aquafeed industry actively supports the growth of the farming sector, the situation has been difficult.â€
TARS 2022 seeks to help the aquafeed industry and other stakeholders navigate these challenges to find a new equilibrium with feed costs and feed efficiency. Participants will review the state of the global aquafeed industry and Vietnam’s successful growth in this sector, as well as strategies to improve feed efficiency; functional feeds and nutrition and health interventions; uptake of novel feed ingredients and additives; smart feed management; risk management and sustainability issues to meet the relevant UN SDGs.
As with the past 10 years, a host of international and industry experts will facilitate the Plenary and Interactive Breakout Roundtables sessions and panel discussions that have become hallmarks of this critical series. The Hard Talk with Business Leaders will debate on cost challenges for industry’s adoption of novel feed ingredients.
“Our role at this TARS is to bring all stakeholders together to deliberate, collaborate and recalibrate efforts to meet current and future challenges,†Merican adds.
TARS 2022 is the ideal platform for networking and dialogue among Asia’s key players in the shrimp and freshwater and marine fish aquaculture sectors. As with the previous TARS in 2019 which also focussed on the aquafeed industry, the target audience will be CEOs, feedmillers, farmers and integrators, processors, nutritionists, formulators, feed ingredient, additive and equipment suppliers, industry leaders, marketeers, institutional researchers, academicians, government and non-government organizations, and other stakeholders in the aquaculture supply chain.
TARS 2022 has the support of industry sponsors including INVE Aquaculture, Diamond V, BioMar, Phibro, Adisseo and Grobest. The Aquaculture Roundtable Series® (TARS) initiated in 2011 is organised by Aqua Culture Asia Pacific and Corporate Media Services, Singapore. It is a platform for all – public, private sector, academia, government and non-government organizations to share new knowledge, deliberate on critical issues, and identify strategies for improvement – to ensure a sustainable aquaculture industry for the next generation.
TARS is designed as a series of roundtable sessions to focus on specific sectors of the industry. Since its inception, TARS has covered the following sectors: Aquafeeds in 2011, 2015 & 2019; Shrimp Aquaculture in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 & 2021; and Finfish Aquaculture in 2013 & 2017.
