Small Business on Seaweed Pickle Turns Big
"A business no matter how small is big enough for a sustenance seaweed farmer and his family." This is what Ms. Enone V. Tepait of the Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University (DMMMSU) believes as she comes up with a technology on seaweed pickles.In the Philippine aquaculture setting, seaweeds and milkfish are considered the top commercially important species. Considered valuable, 800 species of seaweeds have been noted. The major commercial seaweeds in the Philippines are Eucheuma, Kappaphycus, Gracilaria spp., and Caulerpa lentillifera. Others include Codium, Gelidiela acerosa, Halymenia, Porphyra, and Sargassum spp.Production of seaweeds has continuously increased from 707,039 MT in 2000 to 1,204,808 MT in 2004. In 2008, good planting materials of seaweeds and better farm manage...