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Progetto FERPODE

Introduction In The Market Of A New High Quality Organic Fertilizer Obtained By The Use Of Poultry Dejection

Acronym: 
FERPODE
Funding type: 
EU Programmes
EU Programme: 
Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (2007-2013)
Duration: 
1 January 2011 to 31 December 2011
ENEA role: 
Partner
Status: 
Completed

The main objective of FERPODE is to place on the market a new high quality organic fertilizer obtained by the use of poultry dejection, laying hens manure (LHM), according to a European patent pending process. LHM is a biomass, containing as much organic C as an amendment, and almost as much N as a marketable fertilizer with improved drying. The innovation of this FERPODE proposal is connected both to the manufacturing process and to induced properties such as N slowly released that determines the high quality. The main features of this product as FERPODE project result are the reduced salinity and the nitrogen component whose specific properties distinguish this product from the others available on the market. The nitrogen combines an ammoniac based component, with prompt release, with another component having a scheduled release. The tests have shown that the latest portion is much higher in poultry manure treated than in the common poultry manure dried and composted in a traditional way. The special poultry manure combines the sheltering action, supplying soil with organic substances (C), with the fertilizing action (N), as the soil is supplied with nutritive elements.