Cost Effective Technology for Waste Management
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Abstract
Sustainability in agriculture is the primary need of the country, especially for farmers in the society. Sustainable agriculture depends on, a. the quality and quantity of irrigational water used, b. Status of soil in the Land and c. the dimatic conditions of the environment. In most of the locations and for particularly in coastal regions such a ideal conditions could not be possible. Developing a new technology for sustainable agriculture is a one of the current challenges for agricultural scientist, Environmentalist and for younger scholars from various academic institutions. Focusing on this issue, a low cost model has been developed by integrating three different technologies together within a single frame of green chamber arrangement. The quality of irrigational water could be improved by having a solar still and the distillated output having sufficient level of sodium absorption ratio is utilized to irrigate the coir pith medium in a container. Coir pith waste with vermin mix in a particular proportion acts as soil surface within a dosed green chamber arrangement to execute the photosynthetic principle which provides sufficient climate conditions for the growth of plant within the closed chamber. An experimental study was carried out by growthing jasmine plants within the model. The growthing performance were analysed by measuring its shoot length, shoot weight, root length, root weight and biomass in different directions and were compared with the growthing performance in the normal soil medium. The growthing performance was found better in the model. It gives solutions to the issues.
i. The quality nature of unused water could be improved by having solar stills.
ii. Coir pith, the waste material which causes could be used as soil medium.
iii. Waste lands could be converted into cultivating surface.
iv. Young Rural Entrepreneurs could be motivated by developing such a community models in Rural sectors.