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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has directed officials to make a broad economical exemplary for seaweed cultivation to heighten income opportunities for women and fishermen successful coastal regions.
During a reappraisal gathering connected seaweed farming, Mr. Naidu said the cultivation of marine algae (seaweed) had to beryllium promoted arsenic a sustainable livelihood enactment for Self-Help Group (SHG) women.
Andhra Pradesh’s agelong coastline offered immense imaginable for large-scale seaweed cultivation and value-added production, helium said, asking officials to enactment with Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham to hole a elaborate study connected seaweed cultivation practices and the income imaginable for women.
Mr. Naidu said it was important to make worth chains for processing seaweed into assorted products, and instructed officials to instrumentality up measures to grow income-generating avenues for SHG women done seaweed cultivation, and guarantee commercial-scale production.
Mr. Naidu said seaweed could service arsenic a cardinal earthy worldly successful the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries. He said nationalist and planetary markets had to beryllium tapped by mounting up a beardown ecosystem for production, processing and exports.
Mr. Naidu said seaweed had the imaginable to make important wealthiness and supply sustainable employment, peculiarly for women successful coastal districts.
He interacted virtually with experts and officials from premier Central institutions, including the Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, the National Institute of Ocean Technology, the Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture, and the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute. He sought their inputs connected scaling up seaweed farming and connected technological support.
