{"id":19498,"date":"2020-12-20T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=19498"},"modified":"2020-12-19T21:36:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T15:51:40","slug":"microbial-super-strains-for-high-quality-biofertilizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/microbial-super-strains-for-high-quality-biofertilizer\/","title":{"rendered":"Microbial super strains for high quality biofertilizer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Approximately one third of all food produced, about 1.3 billion tons at an estimated value of US$1 trillion, is thrown away annually by consumers or is spoiled during harvesting and transportation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020 alone, Malaysia produced about 17,000 tons of food waste, creating a huge challenge for its management and treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

High quality biofertilizer can be generated from food waste mixed with microbial super strains.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Researchers, led by Md Zahangir Alam at IIUM\u2019s Bioenvironmental Engineering Research Centre, are working on ways to overcome current issues in food waste composting technologies, which involve long composting times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team has found several super strains of microbes containing hydrolytic enzymes that can biodegrade organic matter into a high quality biofertilizer within a period of five days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The researchers mixed their potential microbes \u00a0with 50 kilograms of fresh food waste added daily to a 300 kilogram-capacity composter together with coco peat\/sawdust over a period of four days. The process produced 2,000 kilograms of biofertilizer in a month. They evaluated the quality of their product and tested it on IIUM\u2019s grounds for garden management, vegetable farming, and in paddy crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malaysians use about 1.5 million tons a year of fertilizer, costing billions of ringgit. Biofertilizer could be a good high volume, low cost alternative to chemical fertilizer use in the agricultural sector, especially among small and medium-sized enterprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scientists say their project could be used to compost IIUM food and garden waste, which will help manage local waste and generate a product that can bring in revenue to support operating costs at the university, contributing to the IIUM\u2019s eco-friendly and go green campaign for sustainable development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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