Thursday, October 1, 2009
3R (reduce, reuse, recycle): DO NOT JUST A SLOGAN
Takakura DRUM
Basket Composter Takakura
Composting is a very useful way for students, singles, small families, because it can be placed in the room, apartment, or in ordinary houses. In my visit to the home Mr. and Mrs. Djamaludin, owner of the garden compost Karinda, in Lebak Bulus, Jakarta, I got a new science, which is cheaper to compost with a plastic bag containers.
Composting is a very useful way for students, singles, small families, because it can be placed in the room, apartment, or in ordinary houses. According to Mother Djamaludin, the concept of making compost with this basket was introduced by Mr.. Takakura training at the household waste management in Surabaya PUSDAKOTA. This apparently Mr practical experience. Takakura himself in Japan. So this is known as basket Basket Takakura.
Plastic basket easily found in shops or markets that sell grocery goods household. Its size is only about 50 liters, usually used for dirty clothes basket containers before washing.
This way:
First, find the basket-sized 50-liter small holes (so that people can not enter rat). Do not forget if you buy this plastic basket below the lid.
Second, search doos used bottled water containers, or containers used super noodles, as long as you go into the basket. Doos for direct containers from materials that will dikomposkan.
Third, fill in this doos the finished compost. If you previously did not make their own compost, you just ask your friend who has a stock of ready-made compost. Spread compost into it doos thick layer of approximately 5 cm. Layer of finished compost serves as a starter composting process, because in the finished compost that contains many microbes pengurai. After that doos enter into a plastic basket.
Fourth, the materials to be dikomposkan been incorporated into the basket. The materials should dikomposkan include: Time of food from the table: rice, vegetables, fruit leather. Time vegetables raw kitchen: root vegetables, stem vegetables unused. Before you put in the basket, should be cut into small pieces until the size of 2 cm x 2 cm.
Fifth, every day even after every meal, do include the materials that will dikomposkan like the previous stage. And so on. Stir, stir every finished adding materials that will dikomposkan. If necessary add another layer of finished compost. Strangely, doos in this basket is not full time, because the materials in this doos deflate. Sometimes this compost citrus flavored, if we put a lot of orange peel. When the compost is dark brown color and temperature equal to room temperature, the compost can be used already.
Note: for this Takakura Cart composter, try to secondhand milk coconut vegetables, meat and other ingredients that contain proteins not included in doos. Given his starter had been using the finished compost, then MOL (microbial workshops) are not used.
Comments:
Soenarto Soendjaja said ... This post has been removed by the author.
Soenarto said ... Good Kang Sobirin, I wonder why there is a great tool, how easy, cheap but not much to imitate. What may be less dispersed spread. kalo there any way I can help I would help dissemination. Acheh at least I can start from home, Hatur nuhun. From my friend dpma Edwin
Maolana said ... Thank you for their knowledge. Want comments bit of info ".. former bersantan vegetables, meat and other ingredients that contain proteins not included in doos ..." for which it disposed of where Yes? whether the former fish bones, chicken and beef also should not be entered into the basket? margosc.blogspot.com said ... Can brainstorm? Takakura with a mixture of raw husks 4, l land, l bran & sugar water can also be tried, it works!, all I put over there, including bone, thorn fish, cooking bersantan not provided much (rest) I include also the results? Kindergarten children and the teacher was amazed to see a bone "older" but not the smell!
margosc.blogspot.com said ... Can brainstorm? Takakura with a mixture of raw husks 4, l land, l bran & sugar water can also be tried, it works!, all I put over there, including bone, thorn fish, cooking bersantan not provided much (rest) I include also the results? Kindergarten children and the teacher was amazed to see a bone "older" but not the smell! Ecosystem Prima Lestari said ... Make friends who want to treat the waste using a basket Takakura but want a practical, Takakura Basket can be purchased at CV.EPRISTARI Jakarta. See the information on http://cv-epristari.blogspot.com/ http://indonetwork.co.id/CV_EPRISTARI/840854/biopori-takakura-tas-mainan-produk-daur-ulang.htm (there are also counter selling garbage organic mini size, ideal combination with Takakura basket or hand drill to make holes for catchment Biopori) Please contact: Lesti Aty, SSi 021 9982 6018 or 08161607263 email Primadia: epristari@gmail.com http://cv-epristari.blogspot.com /
may said ... whether the arrival of ants, including part of Takakura?? dheno said ... whether other ants can also appear lice? lice tiny little white really knows what's it called? if so how ngilanginnya gimana?
Nur Nahdiyah said ... wuihh after all this time here and there nanya ttg Takakura box, it is on this blog ... thanks a lot ..
Nur Nahdiyah said ... oh thanks a lot infonya kang ... dah lama there nanya Takakura here about the box. actually pengen join compost making training there kang.mohon infonya.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Outwitting Garbage
A hotel worker puts food waste into a composter. (PANA) | |
From Food to Fertilizer and Back
Prestigious Hotel Sells Fertilizer
The Palace Hotel in Tokyo is one of the city's oldest. It is also known as a pioneer for turning food waste into fertilizer and animal feed. The Palace Hotel began 10 years ago by recycling the chicken bones used in making the large amount of soup that it serves. By using a crusher and a biofermenter, the chicken bones were processed into material that could be used in pet food, an experiment that was a huge success and provided the motivation for future efforts. These days the majority of the 900 kilograms (1,980 pounds) of food waste--leftovers and pieces of meat and vegetables thrown away during cooking--produced by the hotel everyday are put into a high-speed composter. In 24 hours, the waste is compressed to one-sixth its original size and becomes organic fertilizer. In March 2001 the Palace began selling its fertilizer to nearby farmers at the price of ¥100 ($0.83 at ¥120 to the dollar) for 500 grams (1.1 pounds). The rice and vegetables grown using this fertilizer make their way back into food served at the hotel. What made this system possible is the thorough separation of garbage at all businesses before it is collected.
Large Companies Join in Recycling Effort
Even in the distribution sector companies are actively undertaking similar measures. Daiei (site in Japanese only), operator of the nation's largest chain of supermarkets, passes on 10 tons of food waste produced each day at its processing center to disposal facilities in neighboring prefectures. The waste is made into fertilizer, and the vegetables grown with it end up on the shelves of Daiei supermarkets as a special brand, sales of which reached ¥140 million ($1.17 million) last year. Lawson, a convenience store chain, is carrying out a similar program. Box lunches and vegetables whose freshness date has expired are picked up by a company that disposes of the food and processes it into fertilizer. This fertilizer is then sold to contracted farmers who grow vegetables. The new vegetables are used as ingredients for box lunches again. A growing number of shops, and even department stores like Seibu and Keio, are reducing garbage and creating fertilizer by installing driers and composters to handle their food waste.
Food makers are also addressing the issue on a grand scale. Soy sauce maker Kikkoman, working jointly with a paper manufacturer, devised a method of combining with paper the 27,000 tons of waste generated in the production of soy sauce, making products like letter paper. There are even some fertilizer manufacturers that collect the compost that gyudon (beef bowl) chains and the like have created from food waste and remove oil harmful to crops before they sell it to farmers as fertilizer.
Toward a Recycling Society
The amount of garbage produced is increasing every year, and Japan's current annual figure is 500 million tons. Of this amount, 100 million tons comprise food and other general waste produced by homes and various kinds of businesses. In many cities garbage is sorted into burnable waste, unburnable waste, recyclable waste, and oversized waste before it is collected and then disposed of by local governments. Some areas require residents to sort their recyclable waste even further, separating glass bottles, aluminum cans, newspapers, and PET bottles.
In addition to these measures to reduce garbage, the new Food Product Recycling Law has made it mandatory for businesses that handle food, such as food makers and distributors, to recycle food waste as a way of promoting the reduction and reuse of garbage.
While homes are exempt under the current law, a number of communities and local governments have begun moves to promote the voluntary recycling of food waste. One of the communities attracting a lot of attention for this is Nagai City, Yamagata Prefecture. Twice a week the residents of that town take food waste that has been drained of water to a garbage dump, where they put the waste in special collection buckets. Over half of the 5,000 households in the city are taking part, and 1,500 tons of food waste are recycled annually. This waste is turned into compost using city facilities and is then sold to farmers through the local agricultural cooperative. The crops grown using this fertilizer are sold within Nagai. The city began this program in 1997, and the amount of food waste produced every year has since fallen by more than 30%.
Simple machines that can be used to dispose of garbage at home are also beginning to become more common. Through efforts like this, Japan is moving forward one step at a time toward making a recycling society a reality.
(Web-Japan, November 30, 200)
Farming Rice With Duck
Organic Growing Method Spreads Across Asia October 22, 2002 A method of rice farming that relies on ducks to eat insects and weeds has been in the news recently. The "aigamo method" of growing rice was developed in 1989 by Takao Furuno, a farmer in Fukuoka Prefecture, and it allows for the production of healthy and delicious rice while relying on less labor than previous methods. From its beginnings in Japan, it has made its way to rice-growing countries like South Korea, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, and even to faraway Iran. Rice grown using this method is more resistant to typhoons and other problems, and some farmers who have begun using it have called it a "gift from God." | |||||||
Helping Farmers Financially |
Friday, December 12, 2008
Making Farmwork Easier
Autonomous Rice Transplanter Uses GPS System
Rice is the staple food of Japan and the nation's most important crop, and it is planted all across the country at the beginning of summer. Unlike in the past, this is rarely done by hand these days, with rice transplanters that are ridden by people in broad use. But the environment surrounding Japanese rice production is changing as the number of people working in agriculture declines. In order to adapt to this new reality, scientists and engineers are working closely to develop rice planters that can function with minimal operation by human.
How It Works
Multiple Innovations
Because a rice field has undulations, the machine at times will tilt to the left or right or to the front or back as accordingly, giving rise to the possibility that it may stray from its programmed route. In order to compensate for this, the computer applies data from the onboard position sensor to recalculate how far off it is from the set route. The computer then recalibrates and controls the drive wheels to minimize drift. Drift from the set route can be kept to less than 10 cm. The machine slows down and stops planting automatically as getting close to the edge of the rice field. It then makes a U-turn, carefully avoiding the seedlings it has just planted, and sets out on a new path.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
A Safe Way To Protect Crops
How Lactobacillus Pesticide Works
Lactobacillus plantarum WKB10, meanwhile, is even more effective than commercial pesticides in eradicating Pythium, the cause of mizuna damping-off, outbreaks of which are believed to have increased as a result of repeated cropping and year-round cultivation in greenhouses.
As for other soil-borne infections, SOK04, another type of lactobacillus, can be used to combat soft rot in Chinese cabbage. These lactobacillus pesticides are as effective or even slightly more effective than Biokeeper water-dispersable powder, a previously developed microorganism-based pesticide, and these results have been confirmed in infected fields in five prefectures around Japan. Tests have proved that these pesticides are effective in eradication of diseases either when sprayed or when seeds are soaked in them.
Toward Commercialization
The immediate goal is to commercialize lactobacillus pesticide to combat soft rot in Chinese cabbage, with the aim being to register the pesticide, establish a manufacturing method, and release the product to market within the next few years. As work continues to select promising lactobacillus pesticides that can prevent and eradicate other plant diseases, researchers are also looking beyond fermented foods and are extracting and collecting other kinds of lactobacillus from wild and cultivated plants.
The development of these lactobacillus pesticides was spurred by the Kyoto Prefectural Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, which presented an exhibit on how lactobacillus can be used to control spinach wilt disease at the Agribusiness Creation Fair sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries. The institute then teamed up with Meiji Seika, a confectionery company with a track record in lactobacillus research and development, in a joint project with the aim of creating new pesticides. In order to commercialize these discoveries, it will be vital to shed light on the processes by which lactobacillus prevents disease. Kyoto Prefectural University is handling this task as the three parties continue their joint research.(July, 2008)