Seaweed Industry Association of the Philippines

It all started with a simple curiosity, the others just followed and soon, he is hooked. This is the case with Mang Ramiro Panganiban, one of the successful farmer-cooperators of the Community-based Participatory Action Research (CPAR) on “Seaweeds Showcase Project” in Pilar, Sorsogon ... Read More

Steps in Seaweed Farming

Seaweed is harvested throughout the world as a food source as well as an export commodity for the production of agar and carrageenan products. Seaweed has been cultured traditionally for decades and probably for centuries in several Asian nations such as China, Korea and Japan... Read More

BFAR Develops Technology

ZAMBOANGA CITY—The bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is endorsing a multiawarded farming technology developed by a BFAR official designed to double the farmers' production of seaweed in Zamboanga Peninsula ... Read More

About SIAP

SIAP as it is commonly known, is a Non-stock Corporation registered in the Securities and Exchange Commision (SEC) of the Republic of the Philippines with registration number: CE-00463 and was duely registered on September 19, 1985.

Since its creation in 1985, SIAP has played a major role in the continual development and improvement of the Seaweed Industry in the Philippines.

As of today, SIAP members have grown from a few Carrageenan Processors to more than 100,000 which includes Raw Seaweed Exporters, Seaweed Traders and Seaweed Farmers and their families.