Cultivation and benefit of seaweed For human health
A. The Ecosystem of Seaweed
The seaweed is familiar in our living that served to food. The agar from seaweed. How is the ecosystem of seaweed in Indonesia ocean. The seaweed grow in sea waters that has hard and hefty subtract that fuction as adhering place. The seaweed just lives in waters to gets enough light to do photocyntesis, in clean waters, it grow and rise until depth about 20-30 m. the seaweed needs element hara from soluble gridients in sea.
The especially circle condition to supporting the ecosystem of seaweed is light intensity, season, temperature, salinity, water movement and hara matter.
The light intensity very to spore production and seaweed growing the season and temperature is relating firm and both of them is have influence on seaweed’s life. Some kinds of seaweed, the blossom of plant is in temperature about 25-30 C. If the salinity is high can to evoke the seaweed isn’t proliferate. The force of water movement is also influential to circulation of hara matter that is seaweed’s growing.
The seaweed as export commodity that very important to benefit as high food nutrition, medicine and cosmetic.
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The cultivation is doing in two place, they are: in the sea and embankment.
(a) The cultivation of seaweed in the sea
The cultivation of seaweed in the sea is doing when tide water area in depth about 15 m with bottom method, off bottom method. And floating method. Growing manners:
- Seaweed seed fasten about 50-100 g weight in raffia and risrope
- Distance to intercope plant in rope is about 25-30 cm.
- The ris rope fasten to bowling caltivation
- Grow in depth 30-5 cm under surface of sea
- Maintenance of seaweed go on 45-50 days
(b) The cultivation of seaweed in the embankment
The cultivation of seaweed in the embankment is doing monoculture or policulture manner. The using embankment is new or old embankment and also embankment that trace of lobster cultivation.
Before doing dispersion of seaweed, it needs to suffice preparation, they are:
- Seven days after white washing and fertilizing, then to fill a embankment with heightwater about 60-70 cm and leave during 3-4 days
- Then, the seed of seaweed is spreading embankment with solid dispersion about 80-100 g/m2 or 800-1000 kg/ha
- Dispersioning seed must doing in morning when shady water
- If embankment bottom is hard, the seed stuck like rice planting with neat row
- Substitution water is doing every 15 days
- Fertilizer is doing every 15 day in a month after substitution water. The manner using urea mixture, TSP and ZA with ration about 2;1;1 as much as 50-100 kg/ha
- The maintenance is doing every 2-2,5 month per year
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The routine job after spreading is doing controling substitution water and fertilize supplement. Control is doing to distributing plant and elimination of disturber organism, like mouse and snail. The wind evokes the plant to assemble in one place in the embankment. Immediately, leveling the mass plant and also the mouse and snail, because sometimes they hamper the sunshine that coming into the embankment. Until impede the seaweed growing. The seaweed has chance to gets nutrition from water and ground of embankment bottom. The biota polyculture of seaweed they are: lobster windo, white lobser, vannamei lobster, milkfish, seafish, large fish and nila.
Vtojo et al’s research (1993) toward polyculture of seaweed is quickly, milkfish, and window lobster production is highly, because the seaweed spread in arrow embankment bottom that function as protector and also as epifit organism stikcker to milkfish and lobster eating. The polyculture of milkfish and seaweed are not prey to other if giving the product woof. Prefelable polyculture of seaweed with fish that relative endorre to rotter water quality example: milkfish, large fish and seafish that are compatibility. The herbivore fish like parasite that is not compability to polyculuture with seaweed cause it will prey the seaweed.
After cultivationing, then the seaweed is harvest and process to be a food. The processing seaweed to be a basi commodity is dried seaweed. To get dried seaweed is doing the clothline, are:
- The harvest is clean away from feces, like standy, stony, mudy and setaside from the others kind.
- After cleaning, the seaweed is sun dried on base until 2-3 days. To get better harvest. The seaweed is dried on rubber or isn’t pile. To know that seaweed dried is spending salt.
- After that, the seaweed is washing by fresh water until true pure, then drying back 1-2 days until true aried.
- The dried seaweed needs to be clean away from any feces still left with shift manner.
- The dried seaweed direct sell out to the seller. Packaging is doing into the jute. The manner in compact or isn’t compact. If in compact, one jute content about 100 kg, while isn’t compact have content about 60 kg.
Seaweed may be familiar to us, especially for people on the coast. However, not many people know the benefit of seaweed. Actually there are many benefit that we can get by eating seaweed. For some people, seaweed can only be use as a staple in making agar. However, seaweed can also be use as a new unique and valuable discovery.
Processed seaweed products in Indonesia include are: agar carvagena, alginate, which is hydrocolloid. With several properties of seaweed, this preparation can function as a gelling agent or a emulsifying agent.
The gehevally various types of seaweed have been cultivated are seaweed of chlorophyta, rodhophyta and cyanobacteria.
The author will describe the benefit of each seaweed above, as follows:
(1) The benefit of algae (chlorophyta)
The green algae is very benefit, specificially in health field such as:
- Food contains the green algae that have to protect and increase body’s health, also have to protect a vital organ, like: heart, liver nad kidney also have to accelerate regeneration of body cell.
- Green algae have to aid detocrofocation of chemichal compound and heavy metal like: the tin, mercury cadmium, arsenic, aluminium and uranium.
- Green algae have to lower the cholesterol have to accelerate the injury cure. Green algae contains high clorofile, vitamin mineral, fribous food, nukleat acid, amino acid, enzyme and betacarotan. Contents high protein are 60,5% in comparison with other protein resource like milk, fish and meat cow.
(2) The benefit of brown algae (paeophyta)
Brown algae contains many vitamins and mineral that balance and benefit, also contain fibrous, amino acid, b-complex, some active substance. Have to lessen the stroke risk, consequence to blood vessel obstruction and aid to lower cholesterol as much as 26.5% and trigliserida as much as 36,1 in RS Sakhalin Rusia.
(3) The benefit of red algae (rhodophyta)
Red algae is resource food to fish and other animal who lining in the sea and also ingredient food to human, like moos from Irlandia, contains to skin tanner, cream ingredient producer and shampoo medicine.
(4) The benefit of blue algae (cyanobacteria)
Up to know, not founding yet the blue algae that inflict the detriment to human, even said all blue green blue algae is advantageos, they are:
- Uniseluler of green blue algae species is pioneer vegetation. This thing cause algae precedes it life before other organism live in one area.
- To the amount of green blue algae is filament (trade shape) to fasten the nitrogen (N2) that free from atmosphere and modify to ammonia (NH2) until have a role in fertilizy ground process.
- Anabaena Azollaeu, live with Azolla piñata (spike water) Azolla piñata get advantage is ammonia from harvest nitrogen fraction with Anabaena Azolla.
- Spirullina, this algae contains the high protein to make food resource.