Advances in seafood tech demonstrated at IISS

Visakhapatnam/Kolkata: The prowess in seafood technology was showcased on Thursday through latest advancements, ranging from a web-based software that caters to all activities of marine products business to energy-efficient and eco-friendly equipment at the 23rd edition of the three-day India International Seafood Show (IISS) in Kolkata.

SeafSoft, a web-based software developed by Chennai-based Tayyib Global Solutions, has been built to cater to various activities in the seafood industry, including fish catch, processing and export management. It has multiple modules catering to the needs of seafood packers, buyers, buying agents, traders, trawler operators and aquaculture farmers.

Nasser Iqbal, Principal Software Architect, Tayyib Global Solutions, said the best part of the software is that one will get the traceability, which is good for the US FDA Food Safety Modernisation Act (FSMA), the new regulation that has just come up.

“We offer end-to-end traceability, costing and accounting, besides taking care of inventory and yield analysis. We can give a cloud-hosted solution or it can be installed on the customer’s premises,” he added. Iqbal said the major problem being faced by an exporter is lack of visibility about what is happening in the factory, what is the yield he is getting and its impact on the cost. He said that such a software application is introduced for the first time in India in the seafood industry.