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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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What is Seaweed?
Seaweeds, as its name suggests is a
loose colloquial term encompassing macroscopic, multicellular,
benthic marine algae. The term includes some members of the red,
brown and green algae.
Seaweeds are extensively used as food by coastal people
around the world. They are either eaten raw, cooked or processed.
Seaweeds are also being used as medicine and other medical application.
SIAP Website is dedicated for promoting the farming and production
of red seaweeds. Red seaweeds are extensively farmed and produced in
the Philippines. Red seaweeds are the raw materials to produces
Carrageenan, a gelly substance used as food additive or ingredient.
