Green Treasure

Misr Tunis offers the services of establishing and preparing algae farms and supplying seaweed fertilizer through major companies to farms that want to achieve the highest productivity through organic or even conventional farming.

The idea of ​​cultivating and exploiting algae as an important source of nutrients goes back hundreds of years. It was first cultivated in China and Japan on the banks of inland rivers, lakes and seas, and China’s production of algae amounts to about 70% of the world’s production.

Algae are grown by attaching them to dead coral branches or rocks, or they may be attached to buoys placed inside the water, and they may also be installed on nets inside rivers and lakes, and they are fertilized with urea; Where this compost is placed in perforated containers, and buried near the cultivated algae.

Water tanks were also used in desert areas, which depend on rainwater collected in them to produce and exploit some types of algae that are not harmful to human health as raw materials for human food industries.

Exploiting this source rich in proteins to produce food suitable for humans is an important and vital matter, and after conducting more research and studies, it is certain that it will provide a renewable source that meets some of humanity’s urgent need for food, medicine, and energy as well.

The discovery of a type of blue marine algae that activates the immune system and fights aging. A team of French scientists in Mexico discovered a type of blue marine algae known as spirulina, which is considered the origin of life on Earth and the first to reach photosynthesis nearly 3.5 billion years ago. The Aztec people, who lived in this area since ancient times, used and lived on spirulina, as it had a terrible nutritional ability because it contained a high percentage of proteins to treat malnutrition, vitamins and beta-carotene, in addition to vitamins B8, B7, B6, B3 and B2 B1, E, and Vitamin A

Spirulina is also rich in minerals such as calcium, phosphorous, magnesium, iron, zinc, copper, sodium, potassium, and psyllium. It is rich in chlorophyll and fatty acids such as omega-6- and gamma linoleic acid and helps to regulate the level of cholesterol in the blood to an appropriate level. It is used after drying the algae and then consumed as food spices that work to rejuvenate the blood such as the hormone EPO, which activates red blood cells in the blood, which made French chefs use it in their food and that made France a world leader in the use of this type of algae, which was discovered in 1960 in Lake Texcoco in the 16th century when the Europeans invaded America also appeared in Chad around Lake Chad in 2001..

.. It is still used in meals and sold in the market in the form of biscuits. Securing adequate and suitable food for humans in the near future is one of the most important challenges facing humanity. In the year 2050, scientists expect that the human population will exceed 9 billion, and this means a doubling of global demand for traditional food sources.

Hence, the researchers’ thinking was focused on exploiting non-traditional resources to produce food suitable for humans and that meets the increasing demand for food, so they developed and developed new techniques for food production, including the technique of cultivating algae suitable for human consumption.

Multiple Benefits

Algae contain 45-60% of protein by weight, and they are used in many places of the world as food for animals, birds and fish. Studies and medical research have proven that some types of algae contain antifungals and bacteria, as some important drugs and medicines have been extracted from them, as some treatments for disease Cancer, AIDS and many others, and it is worth mentioning here the research conducted by a team of scientists at the Research Institute of the College of Medicine at the University of California, where their study proved that some types of algae such as (Spirulina) have positive effects on the immune system of the body and stimulate the human body to overcome On the other hand, the study warned that many algae contain toxic and harmful substances, such as (Microxetine).

Algae are grown in some fish farms, where they act as bio filters to absorb nitrogen, and there are some types of algae that are used in the treatment of sewage water and the adsorption of heavy metals from it, then it is treated with some types of acids to get rid of these dangerous toxins