Teguise farmers opt for composting as a guarantee of future.

IT REPRESENTS THE RECOVERY OF ANCESTRAL TECHNIQUES THAT FERTILIZE AND PREVENT POLLUTION.

Under the motto 'Raising awareness about the management of organic waste and the composting process', the Teguise City Council with the management of the Agency for Rural Development of Lanzarote, Aderlan, They held a thematic day for the management of agricultural waste.
The meeting had a theoretical part and field work, carried out the latter at the Agrotechnological Center of Teguise, where farmers could learn the keys to making a compost pile.

The proposal to raise awareness about organic waste management began with a talk in which farmers expressed their doubts and resolved issues related to the composting process..

The day was given by the agricultural technical engineer from Aderlan, Hugo Rodriguez, who explained the contents included in the composting guide: “we are walking here and now towards what was before, before chemical fertilizers arrived”, Rodriguez said.

The participants agreed in recognizing this practice as the work that was traditionally done to treat waste from farms and farms. This closes the circle of organic waste management, that return to fertilize the earth again.

After the day, The farmers raised the possibility of acquiring a shredder that rotates through the different crops in order to facilitate the creation of compost piles..

Composting is a process of decomposition of organic matter carried out by numerous microorganisms., bacteria, fungi and invertebrates such as worms and mealybugs that live in the soil.

One of the main characteristics of composting is its aerobic process.; The organisms involved in it need a constant supply of oxygen. In this way the materials do not rot and therefore there are no bad odors..

The result is compost, a high quality product that can be used as a fertilizer and soil regenerator. By making compost, organic waste is reduced at source and a quality product is obtained., natural, without polluting substances, that improves the structure of the soil while increasing the amount of organic matter and other nutrients assimilated by plants.