Agricultural waste could be turned into fertilizer
Caroline Randall
Marketing Manager
With Canada importing roughly 99 per cent of its phosphate needs, a Saskatchewan project is exploring whether agricultural waste and Canadian rock phosphate can be turned into a lower-carbon source of fertilizer.
B.Nature Biotech recently announced it has received $450,000 through the national Harvest wasteCANcreate program to scale technology that uses microbes to turn agricultural waste into a phosphate-enhanced biofertilizer.
B.Nature is a biotechnology company based in Saskatoon that specializes in rapid, industrial-scale composting technology.
The two-year project has a total value of $784,341 and is being developed with Cowessess First Nation and Cowessess Ventures LP in southern Saskatchewan.
The technology uses a mix of bacteria and fungi to break down organic material and release nutrients.
