Funded by the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA), the project will help build a pilot liquid fertilizer plant, and train engineers operating the plant, analyzing liquid fertilizer’s components and designing fertilizer.
It will also promote the use of liquid fertilizer in farming and improve public awareness of environmental protection through supporting farmers to turn metabolic waste into liquid fertilizer for farming at lower prices, and mitigating environmental contamination in irrigation channels caused by metabolic waste treatment facilities.
Together with the project, the JICA will also help Da Nang recycle organic waste into liquid fertilizer following the model and experiences of Chikujo town in Japan.
Earlier, Da Nang worked with Japanese partners to develop the project which was approved by the JICA in August, 2014.
Hisami Arakawa, Chikuj town’s mayor, said that since 1994, the town has operated a plant recycling domestic waste into liquid fertilizer, bring positive results, creating clean agricultural production and ensuring the environment for both sustainable development and preservation.
He affirmed that Chikujo town would help Da Nang find the most effective and appropriate solutions for the matter.
According to Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, Vice Chairman of the Da Nang municipal People’s Committee, the city encourages projects with international partners to recycle domestic waste into organic fertilizer with advanced and green technologies for agricultural production in order to resolve the matter of the increasing amount of domestic waste, and reduce costs of using chemical fertilizer in agricultural production.
At the seminar, experts and scientists from Chikujo town, Saga University, Kyushu University and Japan’s Environmental Solutions Company introduced their approaches, technologies and experiences in recycling waste into fertilizer for agriculture.
