The Agri-Food Tech Gateway for Asia
104 East is a trading brand of Asia BioBusiness Pte. Ltd., which was founded in Singapore in 2005. 104 East exists solely to facilitate your company’s business agenda in East Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
The 104°East meridian passes right through Singapore’s Changi Airport. Either side of the meridian agriculture is changing with the convergence of technologies that are powering the new ‘agriculture 4.0’.
As a gateway to this changing agricultural scene Singapore is hard to beat as a location for your activities whether you are targeting the high-tech urban agriculture, aquaculture or alternative proteins that Singapore is embracing, the large plantations of region or the expanding markets within the hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers of the region.
The need for accurate regional intelligence, analysis and strong networks is paramount but within the new normal where travel from outside the region, at least in the short to medium term, it is going to be difficult.
The team at 104° East will do the groundwork for you to build on when we emerge from the Covid 19 pandemic.
THE CONTEXT:
Agriculture is changing in Asia and this change is likely to accelerate through the lessons learnt during the Covid-19 pandemic. Agri-food ecosystems and the associated value chains must become more resilient to withstand external challenges such as pandemics.
There are considerable opportunities in Asia for a variety of agricultural technologies to be applied. But the ecosystem change must be effected in a sustainable manner and because of this, opportunities exist for companies that may not have had an agricultural focus in the past.
The changing ecosystems need more efficient production systems plus efficient and sustainable water and energy systems – technologies that protect ecosystem services, technology that reduces waste, targets circularity, and technology that guarantees safety and authenticity.
SERVICES
We provide consulting services to companies wishing to build a business that engages with the
increasingly diverse agri-food ecosystems of South East Asia. Our geographical scope includes the ten Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries plus their neighbours, and close trading partners, Australia New Zealand, and India:
