Rubbish increases yields
Farmers near Thies, Senegal have been loading up their donkey carts with untreated household rubbish from the town tip and spreading it on their land. This cheap source of fertilizer led to better crop yields and other farmers, seeing the benefits, quickly followed the lead and the town also gained from an improvement in public hygiene. Further north, in the town of Louga, a project has been set up to test the effect on crops of compost from urban refuse. The compost is a mixture of solid wastes, mostly of domestic origin, which is subjected to aerobic fermentation. Studying the impact of this compost on a particular variety of cabbage researchers found the optimal dose was 100 tonnes per hectare. This increased productivity four-fold compared to untreated land. IIED 3 Endsleigh St London WC1H ODD UK Urban waste can improve the fertility of farmers' fields
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
1991
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/45644 http://collections.infocollections.org/ukedu/en/d/Jcta36e/ |
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