Organic fertiliser Plant
With today’s growing environmental concerns, more and more people are debating on which method should be used to fertilize plants. Most have turned to organic fertilisers as the safer and more cost-effective method compared to using artificial fertilisers.
As a direct result of this organic movement, the market for organic fertilisers has grown immense and the people riding in this tide of successful market venture are of course the organic fertiliser plant owners.
Organic fertiliser plants have been cropping up all over the world, producing anything from manure organic fertiliser to natural seaweed extracts and the like. With the heavy demand for organic fertilisers, it seems production will never stop in organic fertiliser plants.
Establishing organic fertiliser plants is only the next logical step that the agricultural industries should make. Organic fertiliser plants are an effective means of ridding the world of organic matter that would otherwise rot and go to waste.
For instance, chicken farms are a great source of living but the waste matters, that is, chicken manure, they produce by the gallons might be quite a nuisance to the atmosphere. Therefore, the solution would be to convert chicken manure into something useful by establishing an organic fertiliser plant.
Just recently, the largest and most up-to-date organic fertiliser plant in China began its operations in Dalian City in the northeastern province of Liaoning. Built by Han Wei, China’s largest chicken farm, the organic fertiliser plant turns out 100,000 tons of fertiliser annually.
Han Wei had collaborated with Shenyang Applied Ecology Research Institute (SAERI) to start operations on the organic fertiliser plant. Scientists in Liaoning and Heilongjiang provinces have conducted experiments to find out if the product of this organic fertiliser plant is effective. Their studies show that the organic fertiliser plant’s product can raise the output percentage of fruit, vegetables and flowers from eight to eighteen percent.
In the United States, an organic fertiliser plant has also started its base operations in County Sussex, Delaware. Perdue AgriRecycle organic fertiliser plant is a joint venture between the poultry company Perdue Farms Inc. and AgriRecycle, the company that developed the litter-pelletizing technology.
The 65,000-square-foot, totally enclosed organic fertiliser plant uses an environment-friendly method of recapturing the nitrogen and phosphorus and preserving the organic matter of poultry litter. With this method then, the organic fertiliser plant of Perdue AgriRecycle can convert poultry manure into 80,000 tons of fertiliser pellets.
But chicken manure is not the only way to go with having an organic fertiliser plant. Several waste companies that collect food and green waste in its service area for composting also function as an organic fertiliser plant.
During the process of composting in the organic fertiliser plant, however, organic waste water is produced as a by-product. The waste company will not be able to process this and sends it to another organic fertiliser plant that will be the one to separate the nutrients from the waste water.
There are several other potential sources of organic fertilisers all over the world that are yet to be tapped by an organic fertiliser plant. With the problem of soil nutrient management in farms, it will not be long before another enterprising organic fertiliser plant owner will venture out and test those sources.
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