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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
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Seaweed farming has been one of the major source of livelihood for Filipinos for so many years already especially for those living in the coastal regions of the Visayas and Mindanao.
With an estimated farmable area of about 355,000 hectares and only about 43,306 hectares (as of December 2002) occupied so far, seaweed farming offers a great opportunity for Filipinos to have an alternative source of income.
