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                <font style="font-size: 16px;">Technique:</font><font style="font-size: 20px; padding-left: 30px;">PRODUCTION  OF COMPOST FROM WASTE, ASH, EXCREMENTS AND PLANTS</font>
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                <font style="font-size: 16px; ">Project:</font><font style="font-size: 20px; padding-left: 50px;">Quinoa and homemade organic fertilizer</font>
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                <font style="font-size: 16px;">Site:</font><font style="font-size: 20px; padding-left: 73px;">Monguí, Colombia </font>
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                <td><b>Continent:</b> South America 
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                <b>Country:</b> Colombia
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                <b>Site:</b> Monguí
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                <b>Coordinates:</b>
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            <h2 style="margin-top: 50px;">Brief introduction</h2> <p>In the midst of Colombia&rsquo;s current agricultural crisis, in Mongu&iacute; the farmers have joined forces to revive the land and give its inhabitants new opportunities. They have recovered the ancestral Andean custom of planting quinoa and other vegetables and enrich their fields with ecological worm fertilizer obtained from using and transforming the domestic waste produced by the municipality.</p>
 <h2 style="margin-top: 50px;">Problems, causes and effects</h2><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">In the past few years, and immersed in an agricultural crisis, Colombia has been on a quest for solutions to improve the quality of its land, which has been devastated by ongoing erosion. In Mongu&iacute; we find a successful example of how to bring the land to life and provide opportunities for its people. A group of farmers has united to create the AgroSolidarity Agri-Ecological Prosumer Association, Mongu&iacute; section, to improve the quality of life of the members and their families by resuming ancestral customs and working on common projects to pool efforts. They decided to plant several vegetables and reintroduce the cultivation of quinoa, a traditional Andean cereal that had been forgotten for a long time but has gained worldwide popularity in recent decades thanks to its exceptional nutritional qualities.</span></div>

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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Quinoa growing follows a production system involving organic farming. To make the entire process truly eco-friendly, it was decided to enrich the land with natural fertilizer. Thus, while fertilizing the land, a solution was found for domestic organic waste management. Colombia generates 27,000 tons of waste per day, of which only 10% is exploited by so-called informal recyclers. The remaining 90% is accumulated in landfill sites that are near capacity owing to a lack of staging areas. In Mongu&iacute; they started to reduce this waste and reuse it to transform it into organic fertilizer for use on their quinoa and vegetable plantations.</span></div>
 <h2 style="margin-top: 50px;">Solutions/Project description</h2><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">The project began in 2008 with an educational environmental campaign on separating organic waste in all of the town&rsquo;s domestic units. AgroSolidaria, whose initiative it was and which is currently developing the project, coordinated with the Town council, the public waste treatment services and the region&rsquo;s schools to reach the entire population. Solid waste from Mongu&iacute;&rsquo;s 800 kitchens is collected weekly and transported to the processing plant. Cattle waste from livestock ranches is also taken here. The members of AgroSolidaria begin the selection, pre-composting and feeding process of the worm beds, a natural and very economical process. With the help of millions of red Californian worms (Eisenia Foetida), which voraciously accept all kinds of farming and livestock waste, in about three months the waste is transformed into 100% biodegradable, natural humus.</span></p>
 <h2 style="margin-top: 50px;">Conclusions</h2><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Since the year 2009 the natural compost is distributed to the members of AgroSolidaria for fertilizing their quinoa and vegetable fields. This initiative fosters typically Andean eco-friendly farming that brings prosperity to the community and employs around 60 families, curbing the use of chemical fertilizers, which are very expensive and harmful to the land and to consumer health.</span></p>
 <h2 style="margin-top: 50px;">Images</h2><p><img alt="mongui" src="http://fad.cat/citytocity/5/ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/mongui.jpg" /></p>

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              <td>Andres Rocha

[Author of the form: Alanna Gerardi]</td>
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              <td>http://fad.cat/citytocity/5/en/?p=38</td>
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