Father-son team harvesting seaweed in Seychelles to produce fertiliser

//Father-son team harvesting seaweed in Seychelles to produce fertiliser

Father-son team harvesting seaweed in Seychelles to produce fertiliser

A father and son team — Bernard and Benjamin Port Louis — have started to transform seaweed into liquid fertiliser.

Their seaweed factory, Seaweed Seychelles, is also producing pulverised cooked and dried seaweed for soil conditioning.

“We have started production just in time as the country enters the South East monsoon season when the most seaweed is deposited on our beaches,” said Bernard, the father.

Bernard said that the seaweed “is collected by hand, washed and dried in the sun before being cooked. The liquid fertiliser is then extracted from it….
Source: Seychelles News Agency

By | 2018-07-09T13:04:45+00:00 July 9th, 2018|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Father-son team harvesting seaweed in Seychelles to produce fertiliser

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