Using City Compost

City Compost for Urban Farming:

India’s Green Revolution rescued the nation from food crisis, but left over 11.6 million hectares of low-productivity
nutrient-depleted soils distroy by unbalanced and excessive use of synthetic fertilisers and lack of organic manure or micronutrients
City compost can fill this need and solve both the problems of barren land and organic nutrient shortages, estimated at 6 million tons a year.India’s 35 largest cities alone can provide 5.7 million tonnes a year of organic manure if their biodegradable waste is composted and returned to the soil.



Integrated Plant Nutrient Management, using city compost along with synthetic fertilisers, can generate enormous national savings as well as cleaning urban India.The application of compost together with synthetic fertilisers makes crops more pest-resistant by strengthening their root systems and also controls nutrient wastage and groundwater nitrate pollution.