South Korea: Transferring seaweed farming technology to female fishermen in Tanzania

Published 2024년 1월 22일

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Pukyong National University is implementing an ODA project to improve the economic power and human rights of female fishermen in Zanzibar, Tanzania, with support from KOICA. The project, focused on seaweed farming, aims to provide advanced technology and know-how to increase the profits of Zanzibar's female fishermen. The university's team plans to visit Zanzibar regularly to transfer Korea's seaweed farming know-how, provide training, and build a value chain in the aquaculture industry to improve the social status and economic capabilities of female fishermen.

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Pukyong National University is promoting an official development assistance (ODA) project to support the improvement of economic power and human rights of local women engaged in fishing in Zanzibar, Tanzania, Africa. Pukyong National University announced on the 11th that it was selected as an implementation institution for the ‘PMC project to build a marine fisheries value chain for female fishermen in Zanzibar, Tanzania’, supported by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). This ODA project is hosted by the International Fisheries Science Collaboration Program at the Graduate School of Global Fisheries at Pukyong National University and will receive a total of 3.9 billion won over four years from this month to December 2027 to provide advanced technology and know-how in the field of seaweed farming, one of Korea's representative marine-related projects. It is to pass it on. The aquaculture industry in Zanzibar, an island region, is focused on the production ...

Source: Fisheco