BIOGAS DIGESTERS AND PIG HUSBANDRY IN COLUMBIA
BIOGAS DIGESTERS AND
PIG HUSBANDRY IN COLUMBIA
Much of
rural Colombia suffers from a lack of both economic opportunities and public
services, including sanitation and electricity. Over 50% of the rural
population cooks and/or lights their homes with dangerous biomass fuels that
release toxic emissions harmful to human health and the environment. The goal
of this project is to improve rural livelihoods for members of EL COMUN’s rural workers’ associations in six municipalities by introducing 82 ready-to-use pig husbandry systems. Installing a
system includes providing training for beneficiaries, a pigpen, livestock, feed
and biogas digesters (BGD).
As
a result, families receiving the systems will be able to breed and raise pigs
to sell and increase their income, while also saving money by using the waste
gathered from cleaning the pens to produce organic effluent fertilizer and
biogas that minimizes contamination and provides clean cooking fuel. Field
days, workshops and agricultural training programs in the rural communities will
provide experience to potential future adopters of BGD technology and promote
EL COMUN’s sustainable agriculture and
energy efforts, increasing the impact of the project even more. After the bio digesters are
installed, training activities in each municipality take place along with
workshops that cover technical issues related to pig husbandry and nutrition
and best practices for the use of fertilizer and biogas. By March 2017, 88
families received complete systems and training. EL COMUN has gained, local
technicians have installed 18 more biogas digesters for families who did not
originally participate in the project.
Due to an increase in the price of pork, many families are
preparing to expand their operations and raise more generations of pigs.
Families have also reported positive outcomes on crop yields because of
continued use of these fertilizers. This project has been a great success,
and Green Empowerment looks forward to seeing how the community continues to
benefit from the use of biogas digesters and pig husbandry.
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Reference: https://www.greenempowerment.org/2017/08/01/biogas-digesters-pig-husbandry-colombia-project
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