Feeding Africans.
To produce organic fertilizers that have no impact on human and non human animals as well as the environment.
The specific problems I am trying to solve is the conversion of non arable land to arable land as well as produce and promote the use of organ fertilizers which are not harmful to human and non human animals as well as the environment.The scale of the problem of infertile land and people have little or no land to use for growing crops is at its highest yet there is plenty of abandoned land because of its infertility which land can be made fertile and used for arable purposes.Two thousand people are affected by this in my community.The factors contributing to this problem is due to the expensive inorganic fertilizers on the market,and lack or little knowledge by community members as of how to convert non arable(infertile) land to arable land.As a result there is food shortage in the community and hunger/starvation,poverty,land wrangles and diseases related to poor feeding.
There is data with the department of Agriculture and marketing of the ministry of Agriculture of Uganda which confirms this.
My solution is to make and produce organic fertilizers in liquid and solid forms made from soil and plant materials locally by myself at a large scale to sell cheaply locally and internationally.This will reduce and or replace the prevailing inorganic fertilizers on the market and in the community that are expensive and harmful to human,animals and the environment.
My solution will not only serve my community,but the whole world as my produced organic fertilizers will be sold globally.My community mainly is currently undeserved as it does not have enough money to buy the expensive inorganic fertilizers on the market.
This will solve their needs as it will be cheap product for everyone to use.
My team is composed of University graduates of agriculture,marketing and soil experts.We have a long time experience of crop growing and we have already tried this on a small scale and it works.Although we lack funding to put it at large scale.
We have been working with the crop growers in our community since young as well as volunteering with the District's department of agriculture and marketing.Yes we are involving potential users in the design and development of our solution.
- Improving financial and economic opportunities for all (Economic Prosperity)
- Prototype: A venture or organization building and testing its product, service, or business model
What makes my solution innovative is that we are working on production of organic fertilizers that are not harmful to human,animals and environment.We are also helping in converting the much wasted and an utilized land to useful land.
My impact goals for the next year is to have all the barren land in my community made fertile.Lead to everyone in my community using my innovated organic fertilizers,see less or no environment contamination/pollution through fertilizers.As well as health human and animals with no health problems related to food pollution/contamination.
The core technology I used as that of milling where soil particles and researched and selected plant parts are crushed to powder form and packed in that form and or mixed with water to make suspensions.
- Ancestral Technology & Practices
- Biotechnology / Bioengineering
- Materials Science
- Uganda
I a m presently serving 200 people.I intend to serve 2000 people in my community in one year.
I don't have the money to buy the complete set of equipment needed to carry out successfully the innovation.Registering the intellectual property rights as well as the business.
We are working with the ministry of Agriculture of Uganda.
My innovation serves my community in more food production and increasing arable land which helps the community to make more income by selling extra food crops to market for income.It also makes the community save money since my innovation of the organic fertilizers is cheap and doeMy pass to financial stability is that once funded s not harm human and animals thus causing no diseases to human and other animals that would reduce human resource as well as medical expenses.
My path to financial stability is that once I get the funding to produce the fertilizers,I will be able to sell them at a profit thus make the project/business self sustaining.