Integrated Urine fertilizer and farm waste is working on recycling and using human urine for the purpose of producing agricultural fertilizer.
In the rural communities of Kakamega County, women are responsible for half of the food production, and yet the plots they cultivate are mostly poor and infertile. We are providing access to a natural and affordable supply of fertilizer, with a goal to improve overall soil fertility and increase crop yields by four to five times.
Women are trained in urine recycling and crop fertilization techniques and the company distribute unisex urinals to households in the community. The trained women then collect the urine from each home and transport it in plastic containers to the urine processing plant, a greenhouse built to treat urine for pathogens. The urine is initially sanitized by using a heated pasteurizer, then left to cool and decompose for a period of 30 days after which it is ready for use as a fertilizer. The fertilizer is then distributed at an affordable price to the poor farmers in the community and the subsequent increase in overall crop production which provides food security and additional income to all the farming families.
We use technology to downsize and decentralize fertilizer production, making it practical to implement on a village level basis using locally available resources and labour .Which reduces cost of transportation and production. As an alternative environmental benefits, our carbon rich fertilizer sequesters carbon into the soil for many years to follow at same time ,our conversion process also curbs the particulate emissions from traditional open field crop residue burning by more than 90% .
We are contributing towards several sustainable development goals
- Zero Hunger
- Gender Equality
- Decent Work and economic growth
- Responsible consumption and production
- Life on Land
- Partnership for the goal
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