Farmers urged to embrace algae crops Farmers used to growing
grain or raising livestock are being urged to consider algae as
a farm crop. Science writer Julian Cribb says it is an essential
future industry. Mr Cribb has presented his idea to the
International Rural Network conference at Whyalla in South
Australia, saying algae farming can provide fuel and the food
supply for fish farming. He said it was being done overseas but
yet to be embraced in Australia. "We need to double food
production worldwide to feed 10 billion people by about the
2060s," he said. "The trouble with that is that everything we
need to double food production is running out." He said
essential elements of food production, such as fresh water,
available land, fertilisers and stable climates were in decline.
But Mr Cribb said algae could be a way forward. He said it could
be cultivated in states such as South Australia with sunlight,
large areas of flat land and use of salt water. "People in
Australia need to realise that we've got the l