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
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Online published on 15 December, 2016.
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.
Seaweed cultivation, economic significance, revenue genration
