First approved fertilizer released in Bangladesh

 

On Saturday the 21st of March 2009, WWR Bio Fertilizer Bangladesh Ltd. has formally released its first high quality organic fertilizer, produced from fruits and vegetables waste from the markets of Dhaka. To celebrate the release of the new high quality bio fertilizer in the market of Bangladesh, a presentation of the project was jointly organized by the Dutch Embassy and FMO at the Daily Star Office in the city Dhaka, capitol of Bangladesh. In September of this year the project received an honorable mention at the 2008 World Business and Development Awards. The Dutch ambassador remarked that this project has set an unique example of making waste into valuable recourses.

 

While Nanno Kleiterp (Chief Executive Officer of FMO) opened the presentation with a welcome speech. Later mrs. Bea Ten Tusscher (ambassador of the Netherlands) and Nanno Kleiterp launched the bio fertilizer to the market and gave the first compost to local dealers and farmers. Director Jan Boone of WWR, executive Director Maqsood Sinha and director Iftekhar Enayetullah of Waste Concern Consultants gave a presentation of this successful joint effort project implementation in Bangladesh. The presentation was held in presence of R. Brouwer (Director of FMO) and the host Syed Fahim Munaim (Executive editor of the Daily Star).

 

The new born bio fertilizer, named Waste Concern Jaiba Sar (WCJS), is being produced on the organic waste composting plant at Bhulta (Narayanganj) in the outside areas of Dhaka. The Bio Fertilizer is recently approved by the government in Bangladesh. The plant, the first of its kind in the country with a huge capacity, uses local fruit and vegetable waste from the city’s market’s as raw materials.

 

The price of bio fertiliser is currently fixed at approx. 55 Euro per ton of compost. The current project aims at setting up two more plants by 2010 to have a total capacity of handling 700 tonnes of waste from the Dhaka City Cooperation (DCC) markets on a daily base. The project has the objective of reducing  89,000 tonnes of green house gas (GHG) in the coming years and have a positive impact on the environment.