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title: "Seaweed, a new agriculture in India?"  
description: "A brief explanation about the seaweed farming raising in India, 2023"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-10-25  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/2997/seaweed-a-new-agriculture-in-india  
category: "agriculture"  
tags: ["seaweed", "agriculture", "facts", "general knowledge"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Seaweed, a new agriculture in India?

![Seaweed a new agriculture in India](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/e08db631-9d34-4c22-a957-f0e58861067d/images/9d06613d-91b3-45bc-a018-cee55928b722.jpeg) ![Seaweed a new agriculture in India](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/e08db631-9d34-4c22-a957-f0e58861067d/images/a4611bcd-15da-4598-b4d0-788d628176ab.jpeg) Seaweed agriculture, a new and rising sector in India, has the potential to considerably contribute to the agricultural economy of the country. ![Seaweed a new agriculture in India](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/e08db631-9d34-4c22-a957-f0e58861067d/images/17694085-181c-46ca-8c9a-0bf0403dedaf.jpeg) Long Indian coastline environment has the potential to generate 9.7 million tonnes of seaweed annually, but actual production is only 34,000 tonnes. ![Seaweed a new agriculture in India](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/e08db631-9d34-4c22-a957-f0e58861067d/images/d32c393b-52d8-4266-86f3-a1a3af991f3d.jpeg) In 2022, the Indian government announced a Rs 640 crore package to boost seaweed agriculture cultivating up to 1.12 million tonnes by 2025. ![Seaweed a new agriculture in India](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/e08db631-9d34-4c22-a957-f0e58861067d/images/c838a166-0bea-42f6-93d3-578ecef25b9d.jpeg) Gaining popularity for its nutritional value, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, natural fertilizer, biofuel potential, production of agar-agar and alginates. ![Seaweed a new agriculture in India](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/e08db631-9d34-4c22-a957-f0e58861067d/images/b7004ffe-7591-4cb8-a9e8-ad8bbde8aafc.jpeg) It also offers advantages over traditional methods like non-land or fresh water requirements, coastal growth, fast growth & multiple harvests per year

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