project - EIP-AGRI Operational Group
2017-004 - BEHINGURU: Innovation, from waste to resource
Contexte
Eisler et al. (2014) at NATURE, pointed out the main challenges and opportunities that ruminant livestock has to face in the immediate future: a more efficient livestock, with less competition with the food chain (eg less cereals in the formulations animals and more fodder), which favors animal welfare and uses integral and sustainable management strategies and that recycles its droppings, achieving a closed cycle with fewer externalities.
On the other hand, and as a result of the "Green Revolution", there has been a separation between agricultural production and livestock that has resulted in, on the one hand, surpluses of debris in the purely livestock areas and shortage of organic matter and fertilizers in eminently agricultural areas.
In the context of the Circular Economy and the optimal use of nutrients, it seems inevitable to link both sectors again and use the waste properly, while improving the characteristics of the soil and agricultural production. In addition, we must consider the positive effect that a rational and adequate use of livestock waste can have on the environment, by replacing fertilizers of fossil origin with others of organic origin that return, in the end, to the areas of production of inputs for livestock
Thus, it is necessary to analyze and evaluate the opportunity that exists within livestock farms to transform a waste (cattle droppings) into a resource (fertilizer).
Objectives
The main objective is the valorisation of slurry as resources in agricultural operations. Sepecific objectives are: caracterizarion of the farms in terms of the management of slurry and the efect of this management on the value of fertilizer sludge, establish a centralized slurry management system that transformade them into a commercial product, contribute to the improvement of the economic activity of the agents involved in the management system, transfer of results and guidelines for improving slurry management and formation about such important isues as the sustainability or their activities.
Activities
1.STARTING SITUATION:
1.1. Data collection in livestock farms.
1.2. Data collection on agricultural holdings.
2.EVALUATION OF A MANAGEMENT MODEL THAT VALUES THE SLURRY AS A FERTILIZER.
2.1. Environment evaluation of the new management model.
2.2. Economic evaluation of the new management model.
2.3. Social evaluation of the new management model.
2.4. Evaluation of the slurry fertilizer power.
3. STUDY OF THE REPLICABILITY OF THE PILOT.
3.1. Data collection and evaluation.
3.2. Study of the replicability of the collective management.
4. TRANSFERENCE OF THE RESULTS.
4.1. Diffusion continuous.
4.2. Point diffusion.
Project details
- Main funding source
- Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups
- Rural Development Programme
- 2014ES06RDRP015 Spain - Rural Development Programme (Regional) - País Vasco
Emplacement
- Main geographical location
- Álava
- Other geographical location
- Guipúzcoa, Vizcaya
EUR 328 622.00
Total budget
Total contributions from EAFRD, national co-financing, additional national financing and other financing.
Ressources
Audiovisual Material
6 Practice Abstracts
The expected results of this project are the design of a collective slurry management system that responds to the needs of farmers to manage manure correctly. It must solve the problems of the farmers related to the management of the slurry they generate within their activity.
NAIA and BATFARM: These are two useful tools to assess whether the proposed new system is more sustainable social, economic and environmental than the current one for livestock and agricultural operations.
SLUDGE MANAGEMENT MODEL BASED ON ITS STORAGE AND SUBSEQUENT USE AS A FERTILIZER: A management model is proposed in which the excess slurry from the farms is stored in a common point (slurry pool) from which it is distributed to a property surface from a third party and demanding of organic matter and N / P / K. All this process is carried out through the management of an external entity, which in this case is ABERE Koop.S.
FERTILIZING VALUE OF PURIN: Slurry is a residue that, if properly managed, can be a quality fertilizer, for this it is important to analyze it as such and take into account that it not only provides N, P and K but also other very interesting micro and macronutrients for crops. and they do not appear in mineral fertilizers. Therefore, it is necessary to put an economic value that will affect the economic sustainability of the proposed system.
SUBSCRIBER PLANS: When looking for partners in the management system, they must provide enough land and with certain crops to be able to adjust the proposed management system. In the case of farmers, it is also interesting to use this tool to be able to adjust their own internal manure management.
DEJECTIONS MANAGEMENT PLAN: important to know the amount of purin generated on farms and the dates when there may be a surplus. In this way, the capacity of the future storage and the hectares necessary for its management can be calculated.
Contacts
Project coordinator
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Abere zerbitzu teknikoak Koop.S
Project coordinator
Project partners
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Artizar Latza SL
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Ceca Bidegain S. Coop
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Coop. Behialde
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Coop. Lagunak
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Cuma Albina S.Coop
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Gure behi S.C.
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Landetxe SC
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Neiker teknalia
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