Small Scale Spirulina Production Plans

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One of the world's longest-running Spirulina operations is in Auroville, India (good webpage with many details). There is another Indian example of small-scale culture in Madurai (Youtube video here). Some successful village-scale projects have been done in West Africa.

Spirulina grows in long spiral-chains that can be easily harvested in a cloth. Small-scale cultivation is feasible, as shown by JP Jourdan in France (see the pages at Antenna Technologies, including a training module for details).

The drawback with small-scale cultivation appears to be that it is relatively more labor-intensive and has a lower yield than in large-scale operations.

There is a patent about growing your own Spirulina at home in a photobioreactor.



Other links: From http://www.spirulinasource.com/earthfoodch9a.html - to French website - http://www.spirulinasource.com/cultivez.html

Intergovernmental Institution for the use of Micro-algae Spirulina against Malnutrition (IIMSAM) [1]

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