Phosphorus utilization in Mälardalen
Waste used as fertilizer, can such work for The Gambia to ease fertilizer problem
Hölö Södertälje; a town near Stockholm has Sweden's first local municipal waste treatment plant transforming waste into fertilizer to be used in farming. Swedish Environment Minister Lena Ek recently inaugurated the plant which to her will go a long way in Swedish agriculture.
The Plant is a major step towards the Swedish government's target to get at least 60 per cent of the toilet waste to be fertilizer used as fertilizer by 2015 with a view to reducing chemical fertilizer.
This processed is experimented and used Jan-Christer Carlsson’s farm in Nackungan. 300 hectares of land has been used by Carlsson to grow grain, corn, and also fodder grass 70 dairy cows. Fertilizing in the waste water is sufficient to 40 hectares.
The project is backed by the Södertälje municipal water company Telge Nät and supported by the region's agricultural producers' association with the LRF Mälardalen.
Technology has proven that waste especially human waste can be used for crop production and animal raring as experimented in Sweden. With a country like The Gambia where the lack of fertilizer continues to deny the farmers their desires to go into large scale farming, this technology could be a solution. The Gambia’s sewage water is not used into anything else; however, here is a possible solution to farmers lack of fertilizer.
Hölö Södertälje; a town near Stockholm has Sweden's first local municipal waste treatment plant transforming waste into fertilizer to be used in farming. Swedish Environment Minister Lena Ek recently inaugurated the plant which to her will go a long way in Swedish agriculture.
The Plant is a major step towards the Swedish government's target to get at least 60 per cent of the toilet waste to be fertilizer used as fertilizer by 2015 with a view to reducing chemical fertilizer.
This processed is experimented and used Jan-Christer Carlsson’s farm in Nackungan. 300 hectares of land has been used by Carlsson to grow grain, corn, and also fodder grass 70 dairy cows. Fertilizing in the waste water is sufficient to 40 hectares.
The project is backed by the Södertälje municipal water company Telge Nät and supported by the region's agricultural producers' association with the LRF Mälardalen.
Technology has proven that waste especially human waste can be used for crop production and animal raring as experimented in Sweden. With a country like The Gambia where the lack of fertilizer continues to deny the farmers their desires to go into large scale farming, this technology could be a solution. The Gambia’s sewage water is not used into anything else; however, here is a possible solution to farmers lack of fertilizer.