Environmental Advantages Of Spirulina

Spirulina is the best and most easily growing nutritious food of the nature. Spirulina is the richest protein rich food amongst the plant sources. Spirulina is not only good for the human and other living beings but it also has many environmental advantages..

Let us make you aware of some of the environmental advantages of the super food Spirulina.

Hidden Environmental Costs: Have you ever thought that the other crops that we consume are much more costlier than what we actually pay for them? Yes this is true. The land that is used for the cultivation of other conventional crops like corn, Soya beans etc affect the soils fertility and quality. These also directly or indirectly lead to conditions like deforestation, shortage of rains, climate change. Whereas the cultivation of Spirulina actually enriches the soil and do not disturb the ecological balance of the earth.

Conservation of Soil: The Organic farming of Spirulina has made the cultivation of Spirulina possible on lands where other crops can hardly grow. The farming of Spirulina also helps prevent the erosion of soil. Spirulina being the most protein rich food and because of its fast multiplying rate it gives about 20 times more protein per acre than Soya beans, 40 times more than corn and about 200 times more than beef.

Efficient Water Use: Spirulina uses comparatively much less amount of water per kilo than other crops. Spirulina also gives the chance for the recycling of water once it is harvested. So whatever water loss that takes place is only through evaporation and little bit through seepage in the ponds. Spirulina actually needs only 25% the water of Soya, 17% of corn and only 2% of that needed by beef.

Efficient Use of Energy: Spirulina uses very little of the generated or solar energy as compared to that by Soya, corn or beef. The energy efficiency rate of Spirulina is about 5 times higher than Soya, 2 times higher than corn and will you believe it, about 100times higher than that of the grain fed beef.

Good Oxygen Generator: On an average the trees recycle about 1-4 tons of CO2 per hectare per year. But the super duper Spirulina recycles more than 6.3 tons of CO2 per hectare per year. On the other hand it produces about 16.8 tons of oxygen.