Tankmaker modular Integrated Aquaponics Factory combines controlled poultry production, aquaculture, vegetables, soil-based fruit and rice on one farm
Aquaponics is the pinnacle of farming producing both fish and vegetable symbiotically where fish provide nutrients for plants, and plants filter water. Outdoor systems face challenges like evaporation, pests, weather changes, and limited production. Tankmaker's Aquaponics Factory address these issues with an control, vertical aquaponics system featuring modular aquaponics structures, sunlit pathways, climate-controlled rooms, greenwall tanks, and a wind-solar generator (attaining net-zero electricity bill up to 15 years if natural sunlight and wind are accessible).
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Integrated aquaponics has been established as a viable food production method for farmers, enabling the simultaneous cultivation of fresh chicken, fish, and vegetables. Tankmaker's Integrated Aquaponics Factory could further generate fresh chicken, eggs, shrimp, fruit, and rice alongside fish and vegetables. The system integrates closed-loop aquaculture, managed nutrient recovery, and renewable energy to attain high efficiency, minimize waste, decrease water usage, and enhance protection against risks associated with single-product markets.
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TANKMAKER.COM GROUP is a Singapore-based company supplying Aquaponics Factory product under DBO contract (Design-Build-Operate ). A notable example of commercially validated Aquaponics Factory product was the 1472 m² Turnkey Supply of Shrimp Aquaponics Plant, finished in 2023.
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Product A - Indoor Shrimp Aquaponics FactoryThe product is for food fish and shrimp production with vegetable cultivation. This is a commercial food production system uses less land, water, and energy, enhancing productivity while minimizing environmental impact, enabling farmers to produce more with fewer resources. Aquaponics Factory is using aquarium tank system, data analytics, humanoid robots, and autonomous mobile robots to enhance efficiency, consistency, and profitability.
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It is capable of producing• Aquaculture tilapia can yield up to 500 MT/Ha per yr (the traditional rate was 10-50 MT/Ha per yr)• Leafy vegetable lettuce at up to 1,000 MT/Ha per yr (the traditional rate was ~25 MT/Ha per yr)• Staple crop Rice up to 100 MT/Ha per yr (traditional rate was 5M T/Ha per yr) &• Giant River Prawn up to 100 MT/Ha per yr
Tankmaker’s Modular Aquaponics
  • Product B - Modular Shrimp Aquaponics (Wind-Solar Powered)
  • The product offers complete supply and setup of a nature-inspired CEA shrimp farming system using daylight, water circulation, and hybrid wind-solar power. The system's vertical green walls grow premium lettuce and basil, with fresh Vannamei shrimp sold directly for farm-to-table quality.
It consists of 10 paired modular units that having 60 units of 20GP container farms and advanced climate control systems
  • The Shrimp Modular Aquaponics Product consists of 10 paired modular units that having 60 units 1) Factory-built Folding Farm, 2) Two-stage Evaporative Cooling Climate Cell & 3) Towable Hybrid Wind-solar Power Generator.
Tankmaker’s Modular Aquaponics
  • 1) Factory-built Folding Farm
  • It is the air-tight 20 GP container-sized farming cells manages its own climate, allowing for independent control of light, air, water, and cooling, resulting in consistent quality, improved flavor, nutrition, and higher-value produce.
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  • 2) Two-stage Evaporative Cooling Climate Cell
  • The system utilizes a two-stage evaporative cooling method to enhance energy efficiency. First, outdoor cooling pads lower temperatures to 30°C, followed by internal pads reducing it to 25°C, optimizing conditions for sea-bass, shrimp, and leafy vegetables while improving maintenance and bio-security.
The Future of CEA
  • 3) Towable Hybrid Wind-solar Power Generator
  • Solar and wind power are inconsistent alone; hybridizing them with storage batteries ensures energy availability during downtime. This small-scale system is encouraged by authorities as it allows farms to operate independently from grid electricity, eliminating monthly electricity bills for up to 15 years if natural sunlight and wind are accessible.
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  • Product C - Integrated Aquaponics (Poultry-Over-Fish Aquaponics)
  • The product is a modular aquaponics food-production system for producing fresh chicken, eggs, shrimp, fish, vegetables, fruit and rice within one farm compound. Each modules within the 10-modules package operates as an independent production module with its own equipment, climate control, filtration, water management, biosecurity, harvesting and waste-treatment systems. The possible produce are
  • 1. Fresh chicken
  • 2. Eggs
  • 3. Vannamei shrimp
  • 4. Giant river prawn
  • 5. Red nose tilapia
  • 6. European sea bass
  • 7. Giant gourami
  • 8. Basil and leafy vegetables
  • 9. Fruit
  • 10. Rice
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  • Farm House 1 — Food Chicken Production
  • Farm House 1 is designed for broiler chicken rearing, powered by wind-solar. It includes automated feeding and drinking systems, controlled lighting, dry-litter management, cooling pads, negative-pressure ventilation and the T616 climate-control system.
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  • Farm House 2 — Egg Production
  • Farm House 2 is designed for approximately 2,000 laying hens. It is powered by wind-solar & includes multi-tier layer housing, nest boxes, automatic feeding and drinking lines, egg belts and a complete automated egg-handling system.
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  • Farm House 3 to 10 — Fish, Shrimp, Vegetable, Fruit, Rice Aquaponics Production
  • These are wind-solar & sunlight supported modular aquaponics that combines RAS, Vertical Green-wall growing systems, A-frame Green-wall, EBB & soil based system.
  • Vannamei Shrimp is the Core commercial and nutrient driver, the primary revenue source in aquaponics factory. It integrates RAS, filtration, nutrient recovery, and climate control.
Tankmaker’s integrated aquaponics system transforms treated chicken manure into nutrients and algae that support fish growth, reducing the need to purchase feed
  • Three-Route Food Production for food safety
  • Route 1: Chicken-Over-Freshwater Pond
  • Route 2: Controlled egg, Food-Fish and Vegetable Aquaponics
  • Route 3: Independent Vannamei Shrimp Aquaponics
  • Through these coordinated but separated production routes, one farm can produce fresh chicken, eggs, shrimp, food fish, vegetables, fruit and rice with protection against food safety & single-product market risk.
Chicken Aquaponics Case Study
  • The integrated aquaponics system transforms treated chicken manure into nutrients compost and with algae in the water to feed the fish, reducing the need for purchased fish feed.
  • Vegetables and fruit are harvested for sale, while only surplus or waste greens—up to 20%—return as supplemental chicken feed. Fish trimmings can be processed into feed, and egg shells provide a processed calcium source.
  • With controlled water circulation, pumping, aeration, and trace nutrients, the system produces fresh chicken, eggs, fish, rice, fruit, and vegetables with minimal external inputs.
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  • Product D - Aquarium & Industrial Glass Tank Systems (Pit Tanks)
  • Many industrial tanks hide critical information from operators. Oil levels, contamination, process conditions, and product quality often remain invisible until costly problems occur. Tankmaker's Industrial Glass Tank Systems provide real-time visibility, helping operators make faster and better decisions. Applications include
  • ✓ Crude Palm Oil (CPO)
  • ✓ Process Tanks
  • ✓ Storage Tanks
  • ✓ Inspection Tanks
  • ✓ Specialty Industrial Applications
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Acrylic Aquarium For more than two decades, Tankmaker has delivered custom made aquariums, public aquarium systems, educational exhibits, and aquatic infrastructure projects.From small displays to large-scale public attractions, every project is designed with safety, clarity, durability, and long-term reliability in mind. Helping customers create world-class aquatic experiences.

What distinguishes Tankmaker Aquaponics from current urban farming?

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Traditional farming faces challenges from drug and chemical residues and nutrient-rich wastewater discharge, often due to outdated production systems. Tankmaker.com Group's Aquaponics Factory solutions aim to reduce these issues without oversized infrastructure, excessive energy use, or rigid crop needs, while addressing setbacks in CEA hydroponics.
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There is a need for CEA moving beyond automation and investment, focusing on stronger unit economics, reduced energy use, diversified revenue, and a feasible exit strategy to address high energy intensity and profitability issues.
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Aquaponics Factory is a practical, lower-risk urban farming model focusing on control environment with sunlight-led growth through transparent roofs, minimizing LED dependence. It generates multiple revenue streams by producing live shrimp, fish, basil, and lettuce, enhancing customer value. Nutrient recovery is achieved by reusing fish and shrimp production water, reducing waste and fertilizer needs. Independent climate cells allow for problem isolation, and modular investment enables scaling based on demand. Foldable, factory-built structures lower infrastructure costs and installation complexities.
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A Customer-Owned Technology Farm - The Future of Urban FarmingTankmaker’s intended business model is to supply complete multi-module production farms to farmers and investors. The customer owns the farm operation and harvest revenue, while Tankmaker delivers the productive infrastructure. This aligns the technology supplier with the customer’s operating economics instead of relying only on repeated fundraising or one giant corporate farm. Tankmaker Poulty-Over-Fish Aquaponics demonstrates that the future of aquaponics is not limited to one fish species or one vegetable crop. By combining three specialized routes, renewable energy, controlled water movement and circular feed resources, Tankmaker offers urban farmers a sustainable and high-efficiency food factory—bringing the Future of Aquaponics into practical operation. The objective is not to build the largest farm. The objective is to build a farm that can survive. Because Aquaponics Factory is a technology farm designed for practical economics, controlled risk and scalable growth.

Why Choose Tankmaker?

Experience Building systems that excel in performance
Founded in 2002 by Mr. Gerald Pang, Tankmaker.com Group excels in aquariums and indoor farms, manufacturing acrylic tanks, developing RAS systems, and providing ongoing operational support for optimized production.
Front-end Technology
Indoor farms primarily use hydroponics, facing high costs and low yields. Tankmaker Aquaponics solves this by combining fish farming and plant cultivation, utilizing fish waste as nutrients in an innovative system.
High Scalability
Aquaponics Factory's modular design enables over 300 system combinations, promoting growth. In CEA, technology-driven performance and modular scalability are crucial, making Tankmaker's system a transformative, low-risk approach to food production.
Global Track Record
2023 Turnkey Aquaponics Factory Plant – 1,500 m2 for fish, shrimp, and lettuce production using Shrimp Aquaponics.

Why Isn’t Agriculture Profitable Around the World?

Japan is a global leader in precision agriculture, smart greenhouses, and drone crop protection. Yet its farming sector has steadily shrunk. According to the figures in the source text, Japan’s farmland fell from 6.1 million hectares to 4.3 million, and its core agricultural workforce dropped from 2.4 million people in 2000 to 1.02 million in 2025. Farmers are also aging: their average age is 69, and more than 70% are at least 65. Agriculture’s share of Japan’s GDP has declined from 9% in 1960 to 0.9% in 2023. Why haven’t subsidies and advanced technology brought young people back to farming? One reason is what economists call the agricultural treadmill. People’s food consumption is limited, so when technology helps farmers produce more, supply rises faster than demand and prices fall. Farmers may then borrow money to buy better equipment and increase production further, only to push prices down again. Consumers benefit from lower prices, while farmers often see little of the productivity gains.
Farmers also have little power to set prices. Large suppliers influence the cost of seeds, fertilizer, pesticides, and machinery, while major buyers and processors shape what farmers receive for their crops. The source describes Japan’s agricultural cooperatives as a powerful intermediary, arguing that subsidies can be absorbed by the cost of farm inputs before they meaningfully improve farmers’ incomes. As a result, even substantial public support may not make farming attractive to younger workers.The same pressure can be seen in China. Despite record grain production, growing use of agricultural technology, and more than 300,000 agricultural drones, the source estimates that the average net profit from wheat, rice, and corn is around RMB 100 per mu after expenses and family labor are counted. It argues that many small farmers earn little or lose money without government support.
This is not simply a failure by farmers. Conventional Agriculture is structurally difficult to make highly profitable: food is essential, but demand is limited, prices are competitive, and production costs can be high. Agriculture’s value also extends beyond income. It supports food security and social stability. These fact concludes that subsidies can help farmers maintain a basic livelihood, but they cannot, on their own, fix the economic structure or attract a new generation to farming. The long-term solution remains uncertain, but relying on ever-larger subsidies to preserve the existing system is unlikely to be enough. A Possible Pathway: Modular Aquaponics for Urban Farmers How Tankmaker Aquaponics Addresses Agriculture’s Profitability ChallengeTankmaker’s Modular Aquaponics Factory is designed to give farmers greater control over three factors that often squeeze farm profits: input costs, selling choices, and reliance on subsidies. By recirculating water and nutrients from fish or shrimp production, it can reduce dependence on purchased fertilizer and suppliers’ pricing. Its modular design lets farmers adjust their crop and aquatic production to market demand, diversify what they sell, and use multiple sales channels, reducing reliance on wholesale agents. By earning revenue from several products and managing costs around actual demand, the farm may be able to achieve ROI without recurring government subsidies. The aim is to make farming more resource-efficient, market-responsive, and commercially sustainable. Results still depend on careful investment, good management, and access to buyers. How Modular Aquaponics Can Improve Farm EconomicsA modular Aquaponics Factory can give farmers more control over both their costs and their sales. By recycling nutrient-rich water from fish or shrimp production, it can reduce dependence on purchased fertilizer and suppliers’ pricing. Modular production also lets farmers choose what to grow or raise, and plan output around market demand. With multiple sales channels, farmers may rely less on wholesale agents to decide what they sell and at what price.By earning revenue from several products and managing costs around real demand, a well-run farm may achieve a return on investment without relying on government subsidies. This could make the business more self-sustaining while reducing the need for ongoing public support. Results will depend on sound investment, efficient operations, and access to buyers. A further potential benefit is commercial viability without ongoing government subsidies. Revenue from multiple products—such as fish or shrimp alongside crops—combined with lower fertilizer purchases may help the farm earn a return on investment through sales. When the system is sized to real market demand and its capital, energy, feed, and operating costs are carefully managed, it may be possible to operate profitably without recurring public support. This could reduce the burden on government budgets while contributing to local food production. Profitability and ROI would still depend on the farm’s design, management, and access to buyers.
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