NAAS, New Delhi (2024) Seaweed Farming and Utilisation. National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, New Delhi.
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Abstract
Seaweeds, a type of marine macroalgae, are highly valued for their numerous ecological, social, and economic benefits. They have diverse applications, including serving as raw materials for biochemicals like agar, alginate, agarose, and carrageenan, as well as forfood, enzymes, medicines, animal feed, fertilizer, cosmetics, textiles, and biotechnology. Seaweeds also contribute to climate change mitigation processes by serving as carbon sinks, effectively sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide. Presently, 97% of the world’s production of seaweed, amounting to 34 million tonnes, comes from farming (FAO, 2022). In India, there are more than 700 seaweed species, with a wet harvestable biomass of approximately 0.26 million tonnes/year. About 52,000 tonnes (wet weight) of seaweeds that occur naturally along the Indian coast are collected every year from seaweed beds (species are Sargassum, Turbinaria, Gracilaria and Gelidiella) by nearly 5000 families in Tamil Nadu (CMFRI, 2023).
| Item Type: | Other |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Seaweed farming |
| Subjects: | Aquaculture > Farming/Culture Algae > Seaweed |
| Divisions: | Library and Documentation Centre |
| Depositing User: | Arun Surendran |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jun 2024 07:05 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jun 2024 07:23 |
| URI: | http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/id/eprint/18530 |
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