Waste to compost: Banana farmers receiving training
The 3-year programme gets farmers to use waste material for the benefit of land and increasing crop production.
Farmers in Sindh produce 90% of Pakistan’s banana crop. PHOTO: APP
ISLAMABAD:
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has partnered with the International Centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (Icarda) in a programme designed to train Pakistan’s banana farmers in turning crop waste into compost.
Farmers in Sindh produce 90% of Pakistan’s banana crop and have traditionally burnt the waste produced by the crop. “What farmers are burning as waste is actually a valuable resource,” pointed out Dr Shoukat Abro of the Sindh Agricultural Extension Department.
The USDA began the three-year programme titled “Improving soil fertility and soil health” through an agriculture extension project in an effort to get farmers to use waste material for the benefit of land and increasing crop production.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 20th, 2015.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has partnered with the International Centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (Icarda) in a programme designed to train Pakistan’s banana farmers in turning crop waste into compost.
Farmers in Sindh produce 90% of Pakistan’s banana crop and have traditionally burnt the waste produced by the crop. “What farmers are burning as waste is actually a valuable resource,” pointed out Dr Shoukat Abro of the Sindh Agricultural Extension Department.
The USDA began the three-year programme titled “Improving soil fertility and soil health” through an agriculture extension project in an effort to get farmers to use waste material for the benefit of land and increasing crop production.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 20th, 2015.