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The Ministry of Agriculture and Water supports the initiative under the agreement signed today between the City of San Javier, the Technology Center for Energy and Environment and Aprovertia SL for the use of agricultural, marine, byproducts of the food industry and distribution chains of food and urban biomass for use as animal feed.
The Director General of Agro Industry and Agricultural Training, Lidón Angel Garcia, said that the municipality "generates annually about 20,000 tons of products that can be leveraged to deliver environmental and economic benefits, also enabling the creation of jobs."
The municipality of San Javier has an area of ​​7,510 hectares, of which 60 percent is agricultural land, occupied by horticulture, herbaceous and woody crops, which generate a lot of waste, both in origin (farm) and the handling and processing industry in the municipality.
Usually the disposal of this waste goes through his burns, leading to the eventual cost and risk of fire.
Instead, his recovery would reduce the environmental impact and facilitate the collection of certain active ingredients, additives and raw materials that can be used in other business: pharmaceutical, chemical, food industry, organic fertilizers and animal feed, among others.
In this sense, García Lidón stressed that the use of these products "would reduce the cost of animal feed, which can account for up to 60 percent of the costs of a farm" and "get a milk high added value rich in active ingredients, to include in the diet of different animal by-products naturally confer important functional properties. "
In the case of agriculture, Lidón García concluded, the town of San Javier "can be adequately integrated management of waste and by-products, in line with the requirements of the new EU agricultural policy, which calls for GFP, respectful of the environment and discouraged the practice of burning the waste. "
Source: CARM
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