Benefits of Seaweed Farming

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