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Browsing: Seaweed cultivation in Zanzibar
- Globally, seaweed is increasingly becoming the go-to organic medicine option, and Zanzibar is betting big on this avenue.
- Already, the East African Island’s government is investing in the commercial growth of seaweed.
- What’s more, Zanzibar and the EU are in talks to develop the Island’s aquaculture sector.
Zanzibar seaweed output is increasingly becoming a viable commercial project as the island is tapping as part of diversifying its economy. Increasingly, Zanzibar is putting emphasis on seaweed farming because the global industry of seaweed is growing very fast, especially due to the discovery of critical medicinal properties.
It is reported that diseases such as cancer, diabetes, inflammation, and chronic cardiovascular are major global health problems that can all be remedied by seaweed.
In a research paper titled “Global seaweed farming and processing in the past 20 years,” it is reported that “currently, the chemotherapy and synthetic drugs are widely used in the …