Chicken dung-to-organic fertilizer facility to turn to rise in Bacolor
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol announced the establishment of a fertilizer processing facility in Bacolor town that will be operational in two weeks time keeping true to his promise of turning chicken manure from various poultry farms into profitable organic fertilizer.
This came after Piñol said that Mayor Jomar Hizon of Bacolor told him that the province will soon have a problem on what to do with the tons of chicken dung from poultry farms in the province.
Piñol said that Pampanga’s poultry farms are the sources of chicken dung used to fertilize the vast vegetable farms in the Cordillera Region.
“As strict quarantine measures were enforced following the outbreak of the Avian Influenza in San Luis, Pampanga, a major health issue loomed as tons of chicken dung piled up in poultry farms in the province and nearby areas. The chicken dung was previously bought by vegetable farmers in the Cordillera but with the restrictions on the movement and transport of poultry products, by-products and wastes, the farmers face a huge problem on how to dispose it,” Piñol said.
The agriculture chief said that businessman Jomerito Soliman of Santa Rosa Farm Products Corporation, gathered a team of engineers from Germany and Colombia for the project.
“In a week’s time, the engineers - Paulick of Germany, Ricardo Ghisays and Juan Camillo of Colombia - came up with a design of a facility which would burn the chicken dung along with rice hull, produce power and in the process produce quality organic fertilizers,” Piñol said.
The facility will be run by Santa Rosa Organics and Planters Products, Inc. The company will sign a memorandum of agreement with President Duterte on Monday.
Piñol said that he had asked Bacolor Hizon for the establishment of greenhouses in the estimated 5,000hectares of lahar-covered lands of the town to ensure the initial demand base for the product of the facility.
“The greenhouses will be designed to produce organic vegetables and cut flowers for the local market and for export using the Clark International Airport,” Piñol.