Guidelines for import of live seaweeds into India

 The Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying has notified the Guidelines for import of live seaweeds into India. These guidelines seek to ensure biosecurity and protect domestic marine ecosystems. The guidelines were notified on October 21, 2024.

India’s History with Seaweed

India boasts a diverse range of approximately 844 seaweed species. Among these, red algae like Gelidiella acerosa, Gracilaria edulis, G. crassa, G. foliifera, and G. verrucosa are cultivated for agar production. Brown algae such as Sargassum spp., Turbinaria spp., and Cystoseira trinodis are utilized to produce alginates and liquid seaweed fertilizers.

What do the new guidelines cover?

The new guidelines outline specific conditions for importing live seaweed, including mandatory permits and phytosanitary certificates. The import of certain seaweed species will be restricted to prevent the introduction of invasive species and diseases.

Imported seaweed will be subjected to rigorous quarantine procedures, including inspection, testing, and potential fumigation or disinfection. The government is taking steps to minimize the risk of introducing harmful pathogens and diseases that could impact domestic seaweed cultivation and marine environments.

The government aims to promote domestic seaweed cultivation and reduce reliance on imports.

Rationale for New Regulations

Seaweed can harbor various diseases and pests that can harm marine ecosystems.

Additionally, strict import regulations will help protect the domestic seaweed industry from competition from foreign-sourced seaweed. As per the recent estimate by CMFRI, India has the potential to produce around 9.7 million tonnes of seaweed per year, while the current seaweed production is only 34 thousand tonnes.

(Source: https://www.legalitysimplified.com/guidelines-for-import-of-live-seaweeds-into-india/

TOP 100 INDIAN INNOVATIONS (2024)

 

This is the third publication of the Innovation Yearbook series. The first edition- Top 100 Indian Innovations (2022) provided 100 answers to the question- Is India innovative? And with the next 100 profiled in 2023, the Innovation Yearbook has been accepted as the most authentic reference volume on Indian Innovations. With the current volume, the count goes to 300 Indian innovations. In addition to serving as a refrence book, we hope the innovation yearbook series will be widely distributed in the libraries, to inform & excite the students. Each volume explains technology trends, patent status, innovation merits, and the personal background of each innovator. This type of comprehensive information is not available to seekers in any textbook or social media We received nearly 1000 nominations, directly or indirectly, and thank all innovators & stakeholders for helping us in this task. A hundred innovations are selected from out-of-the-sourced documents. For selection, equal weight is given to ‘innovator profile’ and ‘innovation merit’.

To supplement information received along with recommendations/ nominations, additional details are collected from publicly available documents on the net. Photos of inventors/ founders are taken from their LinkedIn profiles which are also cited in select cases. The photo on the cover page is provided by Zen Technologies.

Editors

• Aynampudi.Subbarao.
• KVSP Rao,
• Sachinn Aggarwal
• Raman Teja Venigalla

Links: 

https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0DK5LWNST

https://notionpress.com/read/top-100-indian-innovations-2024?

https://www.flipkart.com/top-100-indian-innovations-2024/p/itm35c79de263d37?

Innovation, Competition and Ambition by Naushad Forbes

 

Source: Naushad Forbes ndforbes@forbesmarshall.com Co-Chairman Forbes Marshall, Past President CII, Chairman of Centre for Technology Innovation and Economic Research and Ananta Aspen Centre. His book, The Struggle and the Promise has been published by HarperCollins. (Published in Business Standard dated 19th September 2024)

Innovation Yearbook

Nominate Indian Innovations for the Innovation Yearbook 2024

 

India's spending on technology imports- more or less??

Technology imports are an indication of technology diffusion and technology absorption capability. Like Indis's R&D spending, the figures on technology imports do not tell the full story.

CTIER HandbookCTIER Handbook: Technology and Innovation in India 2023 is comprehensive with the above limitations.

From the report:

Based on firm level data5 available for industry, the figure above shows a steady increase for technology payments (that includes royalty and technical fees)6 between 2017-18 and 2020-21. India’s total technology payments on the other hand as reported by the RBI has seen a steady increase over the same period.7 There has been a drop in the number of firms over the five years for whom technology payments data is available. It is unclear whether the difference between the industry level data and the aggregate data has been entirely due to unavailability of firm level data. Currently, a breakdown of RBI’s technology payments data by industry is unavailable. Furthermore, it is also difficult to discern from the aggregate level data how much of the payments were towards patented technologies by higher technology or knowledge intensive firms and how much of it may have been towards payments for copyrights and trademarks.

Global Innovators of Indian Origin (2023)

 Global innovators of Indian origin

• 1.    Acoustography- Dr. Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, USA
• 2.    Bio surfactants-TeeGene Biotech. UK
• 3.    Coal Science- Dr. Hardarshan Singh Valia, USA
• 4.    Carrier Gas Extraction technology-Gradiant corporation, USA
• 5.    Computer Science- Raj Reddy, USA
• 6.    Flash memory-Micron Technology,USA
• 7.    Green Steel- Veena Sahazwalla, Australia
• 8.    Nanocomposite Dental Materials- Sumita Mitra, USA
• 9.    Regrowth of Bones- Nina Tandon, EpiBone, USA
• 10. Rotimatic- Zimplistic Pte , Singapore
• 11. Tiny Robots- Prof Vijay Kumar, USA
• 12. Water Technology Visionary- Anil Jha, USA
• 13. Wearable Sweat sensor- EnLiSense , USA
• 14. Wearable and reusable outpatient ambulatory ECG monitoring products- NimbleHeart, USA

Read Their stories: https://www.academia.edu/120223468/Global_Innovators_of_Indian_Origin_2023

1. Acoustography- Dr. Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, USA 2. Bio surfactants-TeeGene Biotech. UK 3. Coal Science- Dr. Hardarshan Singh Valia, USA 4. Carrier Gas Extraction technology-Gradiant corporation, USA omputer Science- Raj Reddy, USA 6. Flash memory-Micron Technology,USA 7. Green Steel- Veena Sahazwalla, Australia 8. Nanocomposite Dental Materials- Sumita Mitra, USA 9. Regrowth of Bones- Nina Tandon, EpiBone, USA 10. Rotimatic- Zimplistic Pte , Singapore 11. Tiny Robots- Prof Vijay Kumar, USA 12. Water Technology Visionary- Anil Jha, USA 13. Wearable Sweat sensor- EnLiSense , USA 14. Wearable and reusable outpatient ambulatory ECG monitoring products- NimbleHeart, US 2. Bio surfactants-TeeGene Biotech. UK 3. Coal Science- Dr. Hardarshan Singh Valia, USA 4. Carrier Gas Extraction technology-Gradiant corporation, USA 5. Computer Science- Raj Reddy, USA 6. Flash memory-Micron Technology,USA 7. Green Steel- Veena Sahazwalla, Australia 8. Nanocomposite Dental Materials- Sumita Mitra, USA 9. Regrowth of Bones- Nina Tandon, EpiBone, USA 10. Rotimatic- Zimplistic Pte , Singapore 11. Tiny Robots- Prof Vijay Kumar, USA 12. Water Technology Visionary- Anil Jha, USA 13. Wearable Sweat sensor- EnLiSense , USA 14. Wearable and reusable outpatient ambulatory ECG monitoring products- NimbleHeart, US