Farming the Ocean : Seaweeds Cultivation and Utilization

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. What are seaweeds. 3. Seaweeds as food. 4. Nutritional value of seaweeds. 5. Seaweeds in gel industry. 6. Agar-agar. 7. Carrageenan. 8. Alginates. 9. Medicinal value of seaweeds. Eucheuma farming.

“The present book has been designed specifically in the Indian context in a very concise and informative manner. This book will be very useful to the industrialists, administrators, policy-makers, specialists, students and small farmers.” (jacket)

[Dinabandhu Sahoo is Presently involved in teaching and research at the Department of Botany, University of Delhi.]