11 June 2011

Towards Biggest Seaweed Producer in the World

RAISING seaweed is one kind of business that can be easily engaged with and have good prospects. Potential land for development is also stretched in many coastal areas of Indonesia. 
Market demand for these products is quite large, not only to be consumed and manufactured food products, but also as raw material for medicines and cosmetics products.
 
Seeing the potential of a truly great, Fadel Muhammad since he was appointed as Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries ambition is to make Indonesia as the largest seaweed producer in the world with a production capacity reached 10 million tons per year.
 
He suggested a production target of 10 million tons per year should begin to occur in 2015. 
Not only on the production side, according to Fadel, within the next two years, a lot of factories processing seaweed.