A Trinidad-based en­vi­ron­men­tal in­no­va­tion group is of­fer­ing its ex­per­tise to Gov­ern­ment as it moves to tack­le the an­nu­al sar­gas­sum in­va­sion, say­ing the sea­weed can be con­vert­ed in­to fer­tilis­er and oth­er agri­cul­tur­al prod­ucts to strength­en food se­cu­ri­ty.

In a me­dia re­lease on Fri­day, Syn­er­gy­Sphere­CASA (SS­Casa) wel­comed the sar­gas­sum-to-wealth ini­tia­tive an­nounced by Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen, fol­low­ing Gov­ern­ment's ac­qui­si­tion of spe­cialised beach-clear­ing trac­tors with sup­port from the Unit­ed Na­tions De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme (UNDP) and the Gov­ern­ment of Japan.

The or­gan­i­sa­tion said while the new equip­ment ad­dress­es the chal­lenge of col­lect­ing sar­gas­sum from beach­es, it is propos­ing a pro­cess­ing sys­tem to con­vert the har­vest­ed bio­mass in­to com­mer­cial prod­ucts.