Agriculture Business Week

The huge amount of vegetable refuse generated everyday at the trading posts, bagsakan centers and public markets could be an excellent source of fully decomposed compost that vegetable growers can use if this is processed the right way.

In some places, vegetable refuse is simply brought to a material recovery facility (MRF) where it is allowed to decompose the natural way. In other places like Central Luzon State University (CLSU), people in-charge of its MRF claim to apply some beneficial microorganisms on the biomass that is brought there. However, the biomass is applied with beneficial microorganisms, simply to dry up the natural way.

According to Bayani L. Profugo, president and general manager of Bens Agribusiness Corporation, vegetable refuse and other biomass can be processed quickly into compost if its solid and liquid content are first separated from each other using a dewatering equipment.

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