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Growing spirulina : start spirulina farming business
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Growing spirulina : start spirulina farming business

How to grow spirulina step by step From a family production for personal consumption to an industrial production farm
Created byMahdi Kamel
Last updated 8/2022
English
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What you'll learn

  • Have a complete idea about spirulina: lifestyle, composition and nutritional facts as well as its market
  • Learn how to cultivate spirulina on an artisanal and family scale: preparation of the culture medium, growth, harvest...
  • Learn the fundamental techniques and tricks to launch an industrial culture: implantation of a farm
  • Urban spirulina cultivation plus tips for beginners to conduct and maintain the culture
  • Control of different production volumes and techniques, from private production to industrial scale, through to artisanal and semi-industrial production

Course content

11 sections11 lectures1h 0m total length
  • What is spirulina, spirulina and environment6:36

    Discover spirulina as a blue-green cyanobacteria with spiral filaments and photosynthesis. Explore artisanal 2–5 tonne yearly home production and transition to industrial farming, plus its environmental and economic potential.

Requirements

  • No experience required

Description

If you want to grow spirulina, either for your own consumption, or to start a production, this training is exactly what you are looking for to start your adventure.

I share with you my experience with this wonderful micro algae, and we will discover together a strategic sector that has good days ahead, in a world that knows many changes and challenges, environmental and nutritional solutions must be provided, and precisely with spirulina we will together be part of the solution.

However, the spirulina market is in full construction, and its mutation is starting, with regard to the new initiatives noted these last days.

Places are available for new players and new projects of significant size. The dietary supplements market is an existing and fruitful market where spirulina can have its place. The economic potential is enormous, more than 2.5 million consumers of food supplements consume it all year round.

This training is a good opportunity to learn the techniques and tricks of this production step by step:

      1. Definition and description of spirulina

      2. Why spirulina

      3. Analysis of opportunities

      4. Market study :

                 - The international market

                 - Targeted customers

      5. Technical study :

                 - Home growing for beginners

                 - Choice of the site (handicraft and industrial culture)

                 - Study of the site

                 - Installations and materials

                 - Spirulina culture basins

                 - Preparation of the culture medium

                 - Seeding of the tank

                 - Production process (harvest)

                 - Conduct and maintenance of the culture

                 - Urban culture and professional tips


Here are the interesting points that we will discuss together during the training, and all this in 10 well illustrated videos.

"When a man is hungry, it is better to teach him to fish than to give him a fish"


Who this course is for:

  • interested in spirulina
  • aquaculturist
  • vegetarian
  • student
  • farmer
  • entrepreneur