News · 1 October 2024
Innovating agriculture for Indonesia’s sustainable future
“Enter Akar, a social enterprise aiming to revolutionize agriculture through modular indoor farming technology, maximizing vertical space and minimizing environmental impact.”
Highlights
- Founder Farras Muhammad spent 8 years in Seoul, studying Architecture and Civil Engineering at Korea University.
- After graduating in 2019 he created DamoGO, an app for buying unsold food from restaurants and stores.
- He built a bamboo greenhouse in Indonesia and scaled it for three years; orders grew five-fold during the pandemic.
- A pest attack in 2022 led to the indoor-farming pivot.
- Akar reported 100 units in operation and more than 10,000 m² of land-equivalent reclaimed.
I think the most important part is [that] grit and patience beats everything.