In Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh, School Students Develop Organic Fertilisers Using Domestic Waste

The state of Madhya Pradesh is popular around the country for its innovation, and initiatives to make our environment and surroundings a better place. In an exclusive report by News18 Local, a school successfully conducted an experiment where the students and teachers made organic fertilisers with the waste material they collected from their homes.

The students of the Jyotiba Phule CM Rise School in the district of Damoh were involved in an experiment, assisted by their teachers where they collected waste from their homes, and used it to make organic manure for the farmers.

The students belong to the rural regions of the area and they have constructed a chamber made up of bricks and ballast within the premises of the school, with the help of their teachers. The students, as well as the teachers, brought waste or garbage from their homes in polythene. They then had to collect all this waste in the chamber they created, which was then converted into organic manure. Another way to make organic manure is with the help of dry leaves, grasses and vegetable peels.

As per reports, the increased and continuous use of chemical fertilisers in farming is the major factor for land to become barren. A chemical fertiliser gives way to more bacteria, and microorganisms, which end up consuming the matter in the soil, making it very hard for the plants to survive. Another harmful effect of chemical fertilisers is that they contaminate the groundwater with elements like nitrogen, phosphorus and pesticides. It is a cause for major concern as groundwater is the main source of water in many regions of the country. So, instead of these chemicals, if one switches to organic manure, it helps in making the soil better for plantation and improves its quality. This initiative has been observed in the CM Rise Higher Secondary School.