The world of seaplants is a group of interrelated communities... each has a different focus. At one extreme we have communities with a completely financial interest. At the other extreme there are communities with a purely intellectual or aesthetic interest. Communities tend to revolve around discipline, environmental influences and uses. Most people belong to more than one community of interest (e.g. one discipline, at least one usage area and environmental impacts). Click on the hotlinks below to gain access to community links.
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Sea Vegetables
Seavegetables have been an important food item in several human societies for hundreds of years, if not for millennia. Such has especially been the case among the Celtic cultures of Europe, the Island nations of Oceania and the countries of East Asia, especially Japan, Korea and China. In these latter countries seavegetables are a daily food item that forms the basis for a multi-billion USD business that is a major employer of seaplant farmers and processors.
The spread of Japanese and Chinese cuisine and of health foods throughout the world has brought new attention to seavegetables. There is immense potential for increasing the consumption of seavegetables as food items, dietary supplements, food texturisers, flavouring, colouring and condiments especially among mainstream markets.
The SEAPlant.Net Seavegetables Community is being developed as an information source for this important industry segment. This is a highly fragmented segment of the industry and it is often difficult to match sources with users so SEAPlant.Net is also lining up trade facilitation facilities to help buyers and sellers of these products find each other and do business together.
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