Specific challenges identified in Blue Economy, especially in the seaweed value chain, include low quality and productivity, high post-harvest loss, limited entrepreneurship and business management skills lack of farming protective gears, low adoption capacity of new technologies, limited participation of youth and men in seaweed production, high transportation cost of seaweed from farms to drying areas, lack of proper drying facilities, low demand for seaweed processed products, lack of reliable seaweed market, limited access to finance various seaweed farming operations, relatively higher borrowing cost, climate change which causes sea level fluctuations and subsequently affect seaweed farming.