{"id":5826,"date":"2019-10-09T09:41:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T06:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5826"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","slug":"firm-finds-gold-in-sisal-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/09\/firm-finds-gold-in-sisal-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Firm Finds \u2018Gold\u2019 In Sisal Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Daily Nation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After an\novernight downpour, we cruise across the green Vipingo sisal plantation on the\nMalindi road, heading to Msumarini to witness an integrated horticultural and\napiary project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the\n11-acre farm, workers are harvesting tomatoes and spinach while others are\ntilling in readiness for planting. Near the yellow passion orchards is a heap\nof sisal waste manure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kilifi\nPlantation Ltd farm manager Francis Lorot Emurai ushers us into a three-acre\nsection with crops at various stages of growth. Emurai says the agribusiness\nventure is part of diversification. Previously the farm only focused on livestock\nand sisal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n27-year-old says using sisal waste fertiliser to grow vegetables and fruits\nstarted in November 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/business\/seedsofgold\/Firm-finds--gold--in-sisal-waste\/2301238-5298850-wd8rgz\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation After an overnight downpour, we cruise across the green Vipingo sisal plantation on the Malindi road, heading to Msumarini to witness an integrated horticultural and apiary project.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5827,"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-5826","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\/5826","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=5826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}