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Source: The post is based on the article “Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying lays the Foundation Stone for the establishment of Multi-Purpose Seaweed Park in Tamil Nadu” published in PIB on 4th September 2023
What is the News?
On the third day of the Sagar Parikrama, the Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying laid the Foundation Stone for the establishment of a Multi-Purpose Seaweed Park in Tamil Nadu.
What is Seaweed?
What is a Multi-Purpose Seaweed Park?
Established in: Tamil Nadu
Announced in: In the Union Budget 2021, the Finance Minister had announced the proposal to set up ‘Multipurpose Seaweed Park in Tamil Nadu’.
Objectives: To promote seaweed cultivation for creation of employment opportunity for coastal fisher youth and fisher women.
– To develop value-added seaweed products by encouraging private sector/ entrepreneurs and supporting them in setting up seaweed processing units in the seaweed park.
– Development of seaweed seed bank in collaboration with research institutes, universities, private entrepreneurs and fisheries department
– Exploration of untapped seaweed potential in the coastal districts of Tamil Nadu through scientific and traditional seaweed farming and development of R&D centres for production of quality seaweed.
Key Features: The seaweed park will provide a single window support for the entrepreneurs, processors etc. to access information on schemes, licenses/approvals required, while also providing space to set up processing centres.
