Organic Fertilizer Plant
Growing environmental concerns has more
and more people debating on what is the
best method to use to fertilize plants. This has led to most
people turning to organic fertilizers as the safest and
more cost-effective method compared to using artificial or
chemical fertilizers.
The direct result of
this organic movement has seen the market for organic
fertilizers grown immensely, with the people riding in this
tide of successful market venture the organic fertilizer
plant owners.
Organic fertilizer
plants are now showing up all over the world, and
they produce everything from manure organic fertilizer to
natural seaweed extracts etc. This this heavy
demand for organic fertilizers, it likely that
production of organic fertilizer plants will continue to
grow by leaps and bounds.
It's clear that establishing
organic fertilizer plants is the next
logical step agricultural industries should take,
since organic fertilizer plants are an effective way
to rid the world of organic matter that would otherwise
simpy rot and go to waste.
For example,
chicken farms are now a great source of waste
matters, in the form of chicken manure,
that are produced by the gallon and might be quite a
nuisance to the atmosphere. The solution is to
convert chicken manure into something useful by establishing
an organic fertilizer
plant.
Recently the largest and most up-to-date organic
fertilizer plant in China began its operations in Dalian City
in the northeastern province of Liaoning. It was built by
Han Wei, China’s largest chicken farm, and
the organic fertilizer plant turns out 100,000 tons of
fertilizer each year.
Han Wei collaborated with
Shenyang Applied Ecology Research Institute
(SAERI) to start operations on the organic fertilizer plant.
Scientists in Liaoning and Heilongjiang
provinces conducted experiments to find out if the
product of this organic fertilizer plant was effective
and they discovered that the product can raise the
output percentage of fruit, vegetables and flowers
from 8% to 18%.
In the United States, an
organic fertilizer plant has also started its base operations
in County Sussex, Delaware. Perdue
AgriRecycle organic fertilizer plant is a joint
venture between the poultry company Perdue Farms
Inc. and AgriRecycle, the company that developed the
litter-pelletizing technology.
This 65,000-square-foot,
totally enclosed organic fertilizer plant uses an
environment-friendly method of recapturing the nitrogen and
phosphorus and preserving the organic matter of poultry
litter. Using this method, the fertilizer plant of
Perdue AgriRecycle can convert poultry manure into 80,000 tons
of fertilizer pellets.
Chicken manure,
however, isn't the only way to have an organic
fertilizer plant. Several waste companies that collect food
and green waste in their service area for composting also
function as organic fertilizer plants.
During the
process of composting in the organic fertilizer plant,
however, organic waste water is produced as a by-product.
Since the waste company isn't able to process this
by-product, it sends it to another organic fertilizer
plant that separates the nutrients from the waste
water.
There are, of course, many other
potential sources of organic fertilizers all over the
world that have, as yet, net been tapped into by an
organic fertilizer plant. However, with the
ongoing problem of soil nutrient management in farms, it
won't be long before another enterprising organic fertilizer
plant owner will venture out and test those
sources.
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