{"id":5138,"date":"2019-09-06T10:01:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T07:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5138"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","slug":"banana-and-potato-peels-offering-cheaper-natural-fertiliser-options-for-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/06\/banana-and-potato-peels-offering-cheaper-natural-fertiliser-options-for-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"Banana And Potato Peels Offering Cheaper, Natural Fertiliser Options For Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By\nBusiness Daily<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in 2008, Simon Ntubiri, a farmer in Riiji village,\nKatheri East in Meru County, grew arrowroots, coffee and passion fruits\nconventionally; using synthetic fertilizers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Mr. Ntubiri, as for many other farmers, fertilizer\napplication was the surest way to bumper harvest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And he was right. But as time went by, Mr. Ntubiri\u2019s\nrelentless investment in synthetic fertilizers bore little fruit as the farms\nbecame too acidic and crop productivity began plummeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Disturbed by the dwindling productivity, the farmer made\na decisive move in 2012 to start applying agricultural lime, crop wastes and\nanimal manure to neutralize the acidity and enrich the soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About six years ago, his work was further simplified when\na local farmers\u2019 self-help group known as Imenti Community Based Organization\n(ICOBO) \u2014which specializes in adding value to vegetables and fruits for export\n\u2014began making organic fertilizers from banana and potato peels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The farmers\u2019 group, which buys bananas, arrowroots and\nsweet potatoes from local smallholder farmers in the county realized that\nrather than dispose of the peels from the commodities, they could process them\ninto something useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once the bananas, arrowroots, and potatoes arrive at the\nfacility for processing, they are washed and peeled. These are then dried using\nsolar energy inside a greenhouse made of polythene bags and wooden poles. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/datahub\/Banana-and-potato-peels-offering-cheaper--natural-fertiliser-\/3815418-5261376-prbe4i\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Business Daily Back in 2008, Simon Ntubiri, a farmer in Riiji village, Katheri East in Meru County, grew arrowroots, coffee and passion fruits conventionally; using synthetic fertilizers. For Mr.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5139,"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-5138","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\/5138","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=5138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}