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KINGSBURG, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Worms are being bought arsenic portion of a $2.3 cardinal concern to assistance recycle manure into fertilizer successful Kingsburg, the USDA announced Wednesday.
The USDA says Biofiltro USA Inc. volition usage the $2,398,800 cardinal assistance to physique a vermicomposting installation to process manure from dairy cows. A vermicomposting facility, according to CalRecycle, uses worms to interruption down integrated worldly and crook them into a nutrient-rich ungraded amendment that tin nourish location plants oregon gardens.
According to organizers, the task volition payment farmers wrong the portion by yielding much than 33,000 cubic yards of composted fertilizer alternatives annually.
“With this investment, we’re partnering to enactment California’s farmers,” said Rural Development California State Director Maria Gallegos Herrera. “This caller composting installation volition enactment agrarian jobs and summation merchandise options for our farmers.”
The assistance is funded by the Commodity Credit Corporation and is portion of a $116 million investment done the Fertilizer Production Expansion Program (FPEP) to assistance facilities grow innovative fertilizer production.
