THE PIONEERING ALGAE GROWING FOOD VENTURE IN BELIZE

MANNA THE FOOD FROM GOD IN HEAVEN, SAYS THE BIBLE. THE ISRAELITES FLED EGYPT, UNDER MOSES, BUT TOOK THE EGYPTIAN, NILE DELTA ALGAE FARM TECHNOLOGY WITH THEM, TO SURVIVE IN THE SINAE DESERT, for FORTY YEARS, happened over THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.

Algae food.

Gourmet algae caviar.



ALGAE AS A FOOD BUSINESS IN BELIZE

While many farmers are playing with the fish pond aquaculture, by Tilapia Farming in Belize, nobody is really making any money yet out of a commercial operation.

Something to think about though is an entrepreneurial venture in Belize, to make algae as a food. A paste ( a sort of algae version of CAVIAR ) to eat on corn tortillas, or just mix with your flour in bread, and many others.

Studies have shown that malnourished children will recover if fed a bit of algae each day. Algae in it´s simplist form is easy to produce. The containers might be expensive, but the food of algae is simple to produce.

The algae product industry is vast and NEW. Worldwide it is in the infancy stage. In the past ten years in the EU about 100 algae farms have started. In ten more years there are expected to be over 500 such algae farms. This is a good position for Belize, as we are in the sun belt. We can make algae here. Containers to sell it might be a problem, but otherwise, here is a Belizean business not yet established, but capable of not only diversifying the local food sources, but also for EXPORT.

The KING of small scale, algae micro farming is a guy named Jean Paul Jordan, who lives in Angers, France. Here is a video from him. He will teach anybody how to make algae. It´s not hard. You have to decide on one of the two major types. I go for the covered shallow tank type. Clear cover to allow sunlight for photosynthesis.

http://www.algaeindustrymagazine.com/spirulina-in-france/ (VIDEO TO WATCH )

Algae is superior to all other FOODS on EARTH. Reason being, all foods descend from the original algae back 4 billion years or so ago.

Because of mosquitos in Belize, a covered type artifical tank, or pond is probably the best way to go, with a transparent plastic top. Small scale. Large scale you move to clear plastic tubing, about 4 inches in diameter. You can feed the pond with sugar, or starch and of course some fertilizer, to get it going.

Nutritionally algae is better and richer, than any other food product grown in Belize, or around the world today. So the scientists say. There are markets for algae products of many different kinds and more being discovered scientifically every day. The algae business is just starting to grow.

MANNA, the food that supported the Israelites fleeing from the Pharaoh in Egypt survived in the desert of the Sinai for 40 years, and MANNA was supposed to be algae.

The type of algae you grow for food, can be found in local areas. Skim some and you have a starter crop.