As a professional gardener, I’m always seeking out new ways to feed my plants. I have steeped nettles in old buckets to brew a nitrogen-rich foliar feed, hoarded banana skins from the trash for a ...

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Peter Kagereki Safari shows his rabbits at his parent’s farm in Mbuinjeru village of Kagaari North ward, Embu Count. He manufactures foliar fertiliser using rabbit urine. (PHOTO: BY JOSEPH ...

Kenya: For a long time, the benefits of nutrient-rich rabbit urine went unrecognised. No, not for drinking, but for making fertiliser. In South Rift, where rabbit keeping has long been considered a ...

Researchers have found a new way to use human urine to make fertilizer for agricultural crops. Their discovery is significant because it can better utilize wastewater in cities and on farms without ...

The National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) said it has harvested 25,000 litres of urine from over 5000 rabbits that would be used as organic fertiliser to support its young farmers ...

You probably flush a nutrient-rich, renewable fertilizer down the toilet every day: your pee. Human urine can be used as a safe and effective crop fertilizer, researchers said. And studies show using ...

The production of mineral based fertilizers requires a significant amount of energy and relies in part on non-renewable resources such as phosphate rock. Furthermore, the price of mineral fertilizer ...

Researchers say human urine – or peecycling – could be a liquid gold alternative to chemical fertilizers. Fabien Esculier, a researcher at the OCAPI research program in France, told Euro News that ...