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2. ECO-FRIENDLY SYSTEM OF SEA GRAPES CULTURE

1. General Information and description of best practice/technology

Introduction

The Eco-friendly sea grapes culture system together with local wisdom is the guideline in

the area of coastal saline soil for sustainable land use.

Sea grapes are considered to be a unicellular plant in the sea with importance to the

environment. They are also part of food chain with the ecosystem to keep the natural balance of
the ocean. They are important to human beings' living in terms of nutrition, supplementary food

for health as well as necessity for young aquatic animals. They may function as shelters or food
sources for them including prevention and removal of waste water possibly occurring in the sea

water and water resources. Sea grapes live together with bacteria whereby bacteria help decompose
organic compounds to be in the form of inorganic compounds and sea grapes use these compounds.

For the other part, sea grapes can be used for industry and cosmetics. The extract from sea grapes

is used in the pharmaceutical industry to prevent and treat diseases.

Previously, the area of this technology was Avicennia sp. Later, the area was changed to

be the area of salt farming. In 1984, they transformed land use into Brine shrimp culture. Then
once again, they faced economic, coupled with problems of environmental impact. Therefore,

farmers changed utilization to sea grapes culture in 2016.

Operating facility House No. 4, Moo 3, Laem Phak Bia sub-district, Ban Laem district,
Phetchaburi province.

Land user Mr. Manu Paochan

Compiler Ms.Kulvadee Sutthawat
Reviewer Dr.Bunjirtluk Jintaridth

Dr. Prapa Taranet

Geographical location
Latitude 100.07979 Longitude 13.03804

Operation Start Date

The operation started in 2016

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