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

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 ...