RAMESWARAM: Draped in a colourful saree and shirt, Lakshmi Murgesan dives into the azure waters off India's southern coast to collect seaweed, which is being hailed by scientists as a miracle crop that absorbs more carbon dioxide than trees.
"I am doing this for my children ... It requires a lot of hard work, but I am able to earn good profits from about four months of work," said Murgesan, who makes 20,000 rupees each month farming the fibrous macroalgae."I would not have been able to educate my children but after doing this, I could send my children to college," she added, smiling as she emerged from the waters in Rameswaram, in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
India, which has an 8,000km coastline, is now aiming to boost production from the current 30,000 tons to more than one million tons each year by 2025. The product is then sent for sale in markets nationwide as well as the US and Australia through AquAgri, a private company that promotes algal cultivation in India.
And while it has not been traditionally popular in India, in July the government announced around US$85 million in subsidies for seaweed farming initiatives over the next five years.Interest is growing in Australia, which has outlined a plan to develop a US$100 million industry by 2025."Seaweeds clean up the water. At the same time seaweed cultivators get a sustainable income without having to relocate to urban areas to find work," he explained.
"We now have sound evidence that seaweed in cattle diet is effective at reducing greenhouse gases and that the efficacy does not diminish over time," Ermias Kebreab, director of the World Food Center, said in the research.
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