Bio-waste conversation for use

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With the increase in global food demand at the same time increase in input cost, production has heavy reliance on fossil-based chemical-based fertilizers and pesticides has been the norm to achieve supply. This has detrimental effects to the soils. Rather than replenishing minerals and essential elements these fertilizers and pesticides when ill-used lead to leaching and deficiencies and killing of beneficial pollinators. The lack of oversight and poor chemical application practices have led to depletion of essential elements for plant growth and also the breakdown of soil structures and its ecosystem. East Africa is an agriculturally based region with most economies relying on agriculture as its backbone. Its temperate and tropical climates and good loam soils are attributed to its comparative advantage in food production. Most farming activities consist of small and middle scale farmers not excluding the large commercial operations. However, with the unpredictability of climate cycles due to climate change, farmers have been left vulnerable to unreliable weather patterns thus threatening livelihoods endangering food security and destabilizing the food production value chain. Rapid increase in volume and types of waste agricultural biomass, as a result of intensive agriculture in the wake of population growth and improved living standards, is becoming a burgeoning problem as rotten waste agricultural biomass emits methane and leachate, and open burning by the farmers to clear the lands generate CO2 and other local pollutants. results in improper management of waste. Agricultural biomass is contributing towards climate change

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