Decoding Fermented Organic Manure (FOM) : CSE
Deadline for registration 21st Aug 23
Date & Time Aug 24, 2023 11:00 AM in India
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi. CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable. The scenario today demands using knowledge to bring about change. In other words, working India’s democracy. This is what we aim to do.The challenge, we see, is two-pronged. On the one hand, millions live within a biomass based subsistence economy, at the margins of survival. The environment is their only natural asset. But a degraded environment means stress on land, water and forest resources for survival. It means increasing destitution and poverty. Here, opportunity to bring about change is enormous.But it will need a commitment to reform – structural reform- in the way we do business with local communities. On the other hand, rapid industrialization is throwing up new problems: growing toxification and a costly disease burden. The answers will be in reinventing the growth model of the Western world for ourselves, so that we can leapfrog technology choices and find new ways of building wealth that will not cost us the earth. Our aim is to raise these concerns, participate in seeking answers and in pushing for answers, transforming these into policy and so practice. We do this through our research and by communicating our understanding through our publications. We call this knowledge-based activism. We hope we will make a difference.
Description
A Sustainable By-product of the Compressed Biogas (CBG) Industry
In June 2023, the Government of India introduced the Market Development Assistance scheme, offering Rs 1,500 per tonne to support the marketing of organic fertilisers — Fermented Organic Manures (FOM)/Liquid FOM/Phosphate Rich Organic Manures (PROM). These are produced as by-products from operational biogas or compressed biogas (CBG) plants under the umbrella of the GOBARdhan scheme.
Remarkably, FOM already constitutes a significant 20 per cent of the input feedstock in any CBG plant, thus playing a pivotal role in the thriving CBG industry. However, the true potential of FOM remains hidden from both farmers and CBG plant operators due to a lack of awareness about its properties and enrichment mechanisms.
To address this issue, Centre for Science and the Environment (CSE) is organising its next webinar under the Practitioner’s Knowledge Building Series – the event will delve into various aspects of FOM ranging from its properties, policies, handling, enrichment, and applications. The primary objective is to unlock the opportunities and overcome challenges surrounding FOM, ensuring the financial sustainability of CBG plants.
What is Fermented Organic Manure (FOM)? Why has central government introduced market development assistance scheme to support marketing of organic fertilisers?
We invite you to a webinar where we delve into various aspects of FOM.
