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Rural R&D for Profit Program - Waste to Revenue: Novel Fertilisers and Feeds

Agricultural industries produce large volumes of waste containing valuable nutrients, carbon and water. Unfortunately, this waste doesn’t have the right nutrient balance to be directly used as a crop fertiliser. It is typically diluted with moisture, making transportation and reuse off-farm impractical and unfeasible. Food crops don’t use the nitrogen in fertilisers very efficiently and there are significant losses in the process of converting food protein into meat protein. Theseare widely recognised issues, with the majority of carbon, and almost all nitrogen and phosphorus lost in emissions or waste streams. This project addressed these issues by converting agriculturalwaste and wastewater into novel feeds and fertilisers demonstrating reduced farming inputs and decreasing costs of primary production.

Project date

23 Jun 2015-31 Aug 2018
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Principal investigator

Sasha Jenkins

Project funded by

Multiple industries
Alternative protein Other rural industries Pork

Australian Pork (APL)

Australian Pork Limited is an Australian Research and Development Corporation. Our purpose is to enable a thriving pork industry. Our …
  • Location

    Australia

  • Organisation type

    Research funding body

Collaborators

Department of Agriculture
Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF)

Focus areas

Industries

Sustainabilities

Technology areas

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