Harvesting of Seaweed Cultivation

Harvesting of Seaweed Cultivation

At this stage of harvesting must be considered an appropriate way and time to obtain results in accordance with market demand in quality and quantity.

Plants can be harvested after the age of 6-8 weeks after planting. How to harvest is to lift the entire plant seaweed ashore. Seaweed is farmed in ponds, harvested by plants raised and bred to be left a little further. Or it could be done by separating the strings with a branch - a branch of its parent plants, but this way will result in the obtainment little raginan and growth for the cultivation of mother plants will decline further.

If the seaweed is harvested at the age of about a month, usually obtained by the weight ratio of wet and dry weight of 8: 1, and if harvested at the age of two months will usually be obtained the ratio 6: 1. For Gracilaria species are usually obtained yields approximately 1500 - 2000 kg of dry seaweed per-hectare. Hopefully, with the use of TON (Pond Organic Nusantara) will increase by approximately 30-100%.