Demonstrating the viability of organic cultivation of vegetables by households enabled by robust greenhouses and user-friendly highly efficient micro-composters
✔ The greenhouses are cyclone resistant, designed to be installed on roof terraces and to be assembled by the users
themselves
✔ The patented micro composters are designed to efficiently treat kitchen organic waste and garden waste and to produce
home-made compost and humic plant boosters
✔ The kit includes organic native seeds and a pedagogic user manual for the cultivation of vegetables under agroecological
protocols.
✔ The equipment proposed aims at making home gardening accessible to non specialists and we have worked on innovative
features on both the greenhouse and the micro-composter
✔ We also promote innovation in our integrated approach as we push resilience capacities of households at their best by
giving them autonomy in terms of organic waste management and supply of soil enhancers and fertilisers
✔ Food security is hence made possible at domestic scale through family-driven vegetable production with pedagogic and user-friendly equipment aiming at sustainable gardening practices
Keywords
Organic Agriculture,micro-composters,greenhouses
Language
English
Publisher
Mauritius Research and Innovation Council
Content Classification
Brief
Funding Agency(ies)
Mauritius Research and Innovation Council,Organic Tropical Agriculture (OTA) Ltd