Seaweed Cultivation in India, ANew Opportunityof Revenue Generation Tandel Kirtankumar V.1,*, Joshi Nilesh H.2, Tandel Gauravkumar M.3, Patel M. R.4, Tandel Jitendrakumar T.5 1Department of Aquaculture, College of fisheries, Junagadh Agricultural University, Veraval, Gujarat 2Fisheries Research Station, Junagadh Agricultural University, Okha, Gujarat 3Laboratory of Genome Science, Graduate School of Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan 4Department of Aquaculture College of fisheries, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture & Technology, Udaipur, Rajasthan 5Post Graduate Institute for Fisheries Education and Research, Kamdhenu University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat *email: kirtantandel7730@gmail.com
Online published on 15 December, 2016. Abstract Given the rising global demand for seaweed as a food and other seaweed-derived products, seaweed farming has became topic of concern in recent time. As demands increses, there is a urgent need of sea weed cultivation emerges. At present 92% of seweed supply comes from cultivated species yet there is considerble amount of gap between it's demand and supply. Taking all these facts into consideration togather, seaweed farming has fostered cconsiderable amount of socioeconomic importance to marginalized coastal communities in developing countries. This paper summerize the economic significance of seweed cultivation and its potential to generate new opportunity of revenue generation in India. Top Keywords Seaweed cultivation, economic significance, revenue genration. Top |