{"id":4744,"date":"2019-08-20T10:35:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T07:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4744"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","slug":"farmers-optimistic-over-project-recycling-agricultural-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/20\/farmers-optimistic-over-project-recycling-agricultural-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Optimistic Over Project Recycling Agricultural Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/node\/861377\"><strong><em>Michel Nkurunziza<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farmers are hopeful to\ngenerate additional income following the launch of a new eight-year project\nexpected to turn cassava, banana, soya and vegetable waste into organic\nfertilizers, animal feeds, briquettes among other useful products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from boosting\nagriculture productivity and agribusiness, researchers said business and jobs\nwill be created for waste collectors and those who can process them into\nsecondary products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project which started Kamonyi district is financed by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in partnership with ETH Zurich, a Swiss University and will look at both rural and urban wastes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While rural areas are best for production of food, the urban areas have higher consumption and also generate a large number of wastes\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/business\/farmers-optimistic-over-project-recycling-agricultural-waste\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Michel Nkurunziza Farmers are hopeful to generate additional income following the launch of a new eight-year project expected to turn cassava, banana, soya and vegetable waste into organic fertilizers, animal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}