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Bharathiar University (BU) has released a grooming manual for wide cultivation of Spirulina, harvesting, processing, and merchandise development.
The grooming manual was released astatine a grooming programme during this week connected ‘Entrepreneurship Development done Spirulina Production and Marketing Techniques’ organised by the university’s Department of Environmental Sciences.
More than 180 participants from crossed India, including students, probe scholars, module and entrepreneurs received hands-on grooming and witnessed unrecorded demonstrations astatine the Algal Biorefinery Pond installation successful the Green Technology and Algology Laboratory and Open Raceway Pond installation maintained by the section with the intent of translating technological probe into scalable entrepreneurial ventures.
Presiding implicit the inaugural league of the two-day programme, T. Parimelazhagan, Dean, Faculty of Science, BU, released the grooming manual prepared by R. Rajkumar, Organising Secretary, and Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences.
A. V. Gnanasambandam, Managing Director & CEO, Agribusiness Incubation Society-Technology Business Incubator, Directorate of Agribusiness Development, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore; and C. Thirumala Rao, District Development Manager, NABARD, Coimbatore and the Nilgiris District, oriented the participants connected the incubation enactment and commercialisation pathways successful Spirulina-based enterprises, and fiscal assistance and organization enactment for Agri-entrepreneurs.
Addressing the valedictory league connected Friday (December 19, 2025), R. Rajavel, Registrar, BU, the programme envisaged promoting and generating sustainable greenish employment opportunities.
B. Kayalvizhi, Assistant Director, MSME Development and Facilitation Office, Ministry of MSME, Government of India, Coimbatore, elaborated connected the schemes supporting bioresource-based entrepreneurs. Ms. Kayalvizhi joined the different dignitaries successful presenting participants with certificates.
