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Don’t Waste your Urine, Sell it!

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Posted by: Guest Author on September 26, 2007 Under: Africa, Discussion Lounge, Editor's Pick, Uganda



Via African Executive:

A new farming method that employs human urine is good news to the majority of Ugandans who comprise 80 percent of the poor, relying on subsistence farming. It is also good news to the 35 percent of the population living below the poverty line, as there is now a steady form of income even to children…

For banana fertilization, twenty liters of urine is mixed with water on a one to one ratio. For coffee, the ratio is one to two… One ought to start by mixing the urine and water in a drum and allow the mixture to stay for seven days in order to ferment. This is followed by getting a banana sucker, trimming the roots; smearing it with a mixture of ash and water; leaving it for fifteen minutes; placing it in a two feet hole, and irrigating it till it is mature. One then starts sprinkling the fertilizer around the plant.

Read more: African Executive – Urine Turns Pivotal in Fighting Poverty

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  1. Omotaylor | Sep 26, 2007 | Reply

    Hope this technology will get to Nigeria sooner than later for I have identified a useful profession… How to drink more water to make a living and teaching many to do the same. Also this will reduce the putrid smell that emanates from all corners of the country. This is something politicians will not be allowed to steal from the poor man o, for they eat more than drink. And dont even think about it, s**t technology is for the ones that have food to eat.

  2. Misi | Sep 26, 2007 | Reply

    Ms Omo-T you are too funny. This is a brillant idea. Everyone is given an opportunity to contribute to the improvement of their country and at the same time they are making money from it.

  3. Oluwole Akindutire | Sep 29, 2007 | Reply

    ugh! some technological advancement sha, and who will touch somebody else’s smelly, fermented urine?

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