COMMON RAW MATERIALS FOR ORGANIC FERTILIZER (Baguio-Benguet)

1. Animal manure:
☒Chicken Manure
☐Cow Dung
☐Sheep manure
☒Horse Dung
☐Rabbit Dung
2. Household garbage: kitchen waste
3. Industrial waste
4. Agricultural Residues
☐Crop Straws
☐Bean Pulp
☒Cottonseed meal
5. Municipal sludge:
☐River sludge
☒Sewage sludge

WHAT KIND OF FERTILIZER CANNOT BE USED AT THE SAME TIME?

1. Farmyard manure
Don’ts: alkaline fertilizer – plant ash, lime nitrogen, lime, calcium, magnesium phosphate
fertilizer
2. Superphosphate
Alkaline fertilizer
Reduce the effectiveness of the phosphorous
3. The fused calcium-magnesium phosphate
Ammonium fertilizer

CHICKEN DUNG AS RAW MATERIAL

If not composted properly, chicken dung is dangerous to crops and plants because it could
damage roots and possibly kill the plants.

Chicken cannot fully digest and absorb the feed being fed to it therefore leading to about 40% -
70% nutrients expelled from the body making the chicken manure to be the best type of
manure among poultry dung and livestock manure to use as fertilizer. Moreover, with high
nitrogen content and relatively lower carbon content, it is necessary to add rice husk or straw
to increase C/N ratio and reduce moisture when making chicken manure fertilizer. Meanwhile,
people should also add humic acid to fix ammonia-nitrogen as ammonium humate, reducing
nutrient loss and enhancing fertility and soil improemnt during the process of fermentation
Methodology nila:

Taking making 1 ton organic fertilizer for instance, Whirlston will introduce a method
about how to process chicken manure into organic fertilizer:

fresh chicken
manure
(800-900 kg)
rice husk (50- humic acid
100kg) (50 kg)

organic
fertilizer
(1 ton)

 Mixing 800-900kg fresh chicken dung with 50-100kg rice hull and 50 kg humic acid
uniformly, then adding 5-10 kg rice bran for mixing, evenly spreading on fermentation
raw materials, and then stirring equably for pile composting. If you have large amount
of materials waiting to mixing, it is better to use professional equipment – horizontal
tyoe organic fertilizer blender for fast and even mixing.
 For fertilizer fermentation, C/N ratio should be adjusted to 25-30:1 and pH value should
be adjusted to 6-8 pH. Due to fresh chicken manure with igh moisture, people should
add 20% - 30% straw, haulm or mushroom residue together into raw materials, so as to
adjusting water content. It is very crucial to control moisture during making fertilizer,
not too high and not too low, and there is a way to judge water content appropriate:
grasping materials tightly, water is visible but without dropping down, and materials can
disperse when falling to the ground. Remark: if farmers do not want to reduce water
content quickly, solid-liquid dewatering machine is a quite good solution for separating
the solid chicken dung from the liquid, accelerating the decrease of moisture in manure.
 Creating fermentation pile: the pile should not be too small and too low, which may
affect compost effect. Usually, for better fermentation effect, the height is about 0.8 m
– 1.5m, the width is around 2m, while the length should over 4m.
  Composting the material piles when the temperature of pile is up to 65 Celsius. As we all
know, ventilation is an important factor affecting compost temperature and
fermentation effect, and the purpose of composting is to improve aeration condition
within piles, promote reproduction of beneficial microorganism under high
temperature, and accelerate the conversion off ferment materials, thereby achieving
homogeneous mixing, consistent heating and coincident composting. Hers, adopting
compost turner machine to turn over the materials (turning once or twice per day
during the fermentation process), control chicken manure compost temperature and
supplement oxygen required by ferment.
 Normally, it takes about one week to finish composting and fermentation, after that,
chicken manure would realize complete deodorization and play a role in sterilization
and deinsectization at the same time. For better packaging and good market, people can
proceed to granulating process with disc pan granulator so as to make granulated
organic fertilizer, choosing the suitable granulator depending on raw materials quantity
and requirement for production.
Benefits of granulating chicken manure
 FEECO method of granulation produces a smooth, spherical granule that greatly
improves on the product.
 Spherical granules offer significantly less dust, ultimately yielding more usable
product, as well as improved handling and application. In addition, they can be
stored for later use.
 A key tool in nutrient management and the prevention of runoff
 A granular product further reduces the opportunity for runoff because it does nt
add additional moisture to the soil, unlike raw manure.
 Furthermore, because granulation produces a dry, granular product,
transportation costs are significantly reduced, opening up opportunities for
extended hauling of the product that were once discouraged because of the high
moisture content of raw manure.


Cost: 2100 per truck;

CRITERIA FOR THE LOCATION OF ORGANIC FERTILIZER MANUFACTURING PLANTS:

1.