Farming large areas of the Open sea can only be made possible through automation of the tedious processes involved in seaweed farming currently. This helps produce large volumes of the biomass at a fraction of costs involved in conventional seaweed farming – enabling seaweed to become an affordable blue carbon feedstock.
Automated
Farming
The SeaCombine™ Technology platform - Mechanizing Agriculture on the Sea
Improving labour productivity and creating safe working conditions is a key facet of producing scalable and inexpensive seaweed feedstock. Traditionally, seaweed cultivation sector has utlilized low efficiency labour practices, resulting in labour costs being a huge portion of the cost of seaweed produced.
Through engineering interventions, including the use of mechanized workboats and our SeaCombine™ technology platform helps improve the productivity per person, and enable farming in rougher and deeper waters as compared to current farming practices.
The Seacombine™ Technology platform helps automate every step of the the seaweed seeding and harvesting process such that the entire process is consistent and reproducible while maximizing the productivity per person. This involves custom workboats, specialized seaweed handling equipment and material handling systems which together greatly simplifies the process of seaweed farming. These systems can be customized to suit the local marine environment.
Complete Solution
Fully mechanized for harvesting and seeding of seaweed on the ocean.
Capable of working in open sea conditions, beyond current systems limited to shallow and sheltered waters.
Marine
Agronomy
Marine Agronomy - Precision Agriculture on the Oceans
Managing a kilometre scale farm requires specialized tools. Understanding how each section of the farm is doing and providing the right intervention is key to obtaining a good yield. This involves developing the right methodologies in a site and matching the planting material to site and season. Collecting and correlating environmental data to understand its effects on the farm is an essential part of the toolkit we are building to manage a seaweed farm.
