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The Mandapam Regional Centre of ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), successful relation with SNAP Natural and Alginate Products, Ranipet, connected Thursday organised a seaweed farmers/collectors enactment conscionable connected its premises to commemorate International Seaweed Day (June 4).
The time marks the motorboat of the Seaweed Manifesto, a collaborative U.N.-backed inaugural that is dedicated to highlighting seaweed’s captious relation successful ensuring nutrient security, mitigating clime alteration and restoring marine ecosystems.
A full of 584 seaweed farmers/collectors from Ramanathapuram and Pudukkottai districts participated successful the meeting. The programme was inaugurated by Akhil Thampi, Wildlife Warden and Director, GoMBRT, Ramanathapuram.
M. Chinnakuppan, Deputy Director (Fisheries); K. Padmakumar, Director, Centre for Marine Biodiversity, Department of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, University of Kerala, Kariavattom; V. Veeragurunathan, Principal Scientist and Scientist-in-Charge, CSIR-CSMCRI-Marine Algal Research Station, Mandapam Camp; and others addressed the participants.
They shared their views connected issues and challenges successful seaweed postulation and farming. The seaweed farmers besides expressed their views and enactment distant their queries during the enactment session, which was addressed by the sheet experts.
A poster connected seaweed prepared by R. Saravanan, Senior Scientist, Mandapam Regional Centre of ICAR-CMFRI, was released connected the occasion.
Highlights of seaweed-based products precocious developed by ICAR-CMFRI were fixed by Ashish Khandelwal, Senior Scientist, ICAR-CMFRI, Kochi. The lawsuit was presided implicit by K. Vinod, Principal Scientist and Head, Mandapam Regional Centre of ICAR-CMFRI, B. Johnson, Senior Scientist, welcomed the gathering and M. Sankar projected a ballot of thanks.
