{"id":9486,"date":"2024-10-01T15:06:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T19:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yunusandyouth.com\/?p=9486"},"modified":"2024-10-01T15:06:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T19:06:25","slug":"akar-innovating-agriculture-for-indonesias-sustainable-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yunusandyouth.com\/es_es\/akar-innovating-agriculture-for-indonesias-sustainable-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Akar: Innovating Agriculture for Indonesia\u2019s Sustainable Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a country where only 11% of the land is suitable for agriculture, Indonesia faces an uphill battle in achieving food security. Traditional farming practices contribute to deforestation, water scarcity, and soil degradation, forcing the nation to rely heavily on food imports. Enter Akar, a social enterprise aiming to revolutionize agriculture through modular indoor farming technology, maximizing vertical space and minimizing environmental impact.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Akar\u2019s founder, Farras Muhammad, is an inventive entrepreneur driven by his love for food. He spent 8 years in Seoul, studying Architecture and Civil Engineering at Korea University, working in business development, and drafting his start-up ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After receiving his bachelor\u2019s degree in 2019, he created his first start-up, DamoGO, an app that lets consumers buy unsold food in restaurants\/retail stores to address issues of food waste.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI just love food. This is the thing that I have been doing since my bachelor\u2019s degree. Everything was related to food,\u201d Muhammad said. \u201cI always had this thing, a calling [to] something related to food or harvest. That was the beginning of the [first] venture.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Muhammad was not just passionate about food, but also the need to address the profound challenges faced by his community. He built a bamboo green house in Indonesia, and began scaling these greenhouses for three years, ironically hitting their peak during the Covid-19 pandemic, a time full of lows for so many.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe pandemic era was actually the paradigm shift\u2014I\u2019ve noticed people shifting from the way they eat something before\u2026[they] didn\u2019t care about the types of nutrients or where it grows,\u201d Muhammad said. \u201cPeople [started] to care where things were grown. My total order 5 times multiplied because people started to notice that I\u2019m actually growing something very organic and very healthy for them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately, in 2022, they were hit with a pest attack. That was when Muhammad decided to develop indoor farms through Akar. Antler, a venture capitalist firm active in global early-stage investing, took immediate notice of Akar\u2019s potential. They were shortly incubated and have scaled their business over the past two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI love to scale the company, because when it comes to business, I just love the game. I love the game when I have money or when I don\u2019t have money. I think the most important part is [that] grit and patience beats everything,\u201d Muhammad said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He expresses full dedication to this cause, and proudly stated his willingness to run the business until he\u2019s 60 or 70 years old. With a family background in business, Muhammad is eager to walk along a similar path of infrastructure and development to carry his families legacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy internal motivations come from my family. My family owns a mid-to-high level construction business in Indonesia, but I wasn\u2019t sure that I was ready to have my legacy be the construction [family] company,\u201d Muhammad said. \u201c[I wanted] to make sure that I walked on the same path as my family\u2026I love the part where I\u2019m able to sync [Akar] with the family business, because it\u2019s related to construction.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With 100 units in operation, Akar has since reclaimed over 10,000 square meters of land equivalent for cultivation, reducing the need for imports and preserving valuable natural resources. Compared to traditional methods, they use up to 90% less water and produce 50% higher yields, significantly lowering carbon emissions and pesticide use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Muhammad offers his advice to aspiring agricultural entrepreneurs: \u201cYou need to love the creatures that you are structurally [controlling]. In agriculture, you are controlling two types of creatures. One is human, the other is plants. You need to love plants. If you only love things based on one aspect, it may not be synchronous with the agriculture itself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agriculture is known to have existed for over 12,000 years, and Muhammad believes it will continue to thrive for the future. This personal and powerful endeavor is rooted in a \u201cdeep-seated desire to create positive change, empower local communities, and build a more sustainable future for Indonesia,\u201d he explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Akar continues to grow, Muhammad continues to work, revolutionizing agriculture to leave a lasting, positive legacy for generations to come.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a country where only 11% of the land is suitable for agriculture, Indonesia faces an uphill battle in achieving food security. 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