HANOI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER PROJECT PROPOSAL OF CREATION FESTIVAL "ACTION FOR ENVIRONMENT" PROJECT THEME: "Building the modelfor manufacturing organic fertilizer from organic waste and agricultural waste for safe vegetable production at commune Ivillage level of pen- urban " CONDUCTiNG INSTITUTION: Sustainable Agriculture research and development center HANOI - 2005 CREATION FESTIVAL ACTION FOR ENVIRONMENT" I. THE DETAIL OF PROJECT 1. Theme: "Building the model for manufacturing organic fertilizer from Municiple solid waste and agricultural waste for safely vegetable production at commune/village level of penurban" 2. Project site: Dang Xa, Cia Lam, Ha Noi 3. Conducting Institution: Sustainable Agriculture Research and Development Center (SARDC), Hanoi Agricultural University (HAU) * Founded: 1996 * Founder: Hanoi Agricultural University Nol (HAU) * The Staff of Centre: In mottoes of neat but effect, the Center has not aimed at widening regular staff bat mainly developing collaborators. To date, the regular staffs in the center just consist of one Director who is a multi-position Professor, two Vice Directors who are one Assistant Professor and one multi-position Doctor, and five researchers including ones who also respond for stationary. The others are collaborators who are scientists belonging to many fields of science in I-IAU and become fond of centre through many years. 3.2.1. The list of regular staffs in the Centre. N0 Name Degree Position Notes I Nguyen Viet Tung Prof Dr Director Multi-position 2 Dao Chau Thu Assoc.. Prof Dr Vice Director _______________ 3 Nguyen Ich Tan Dr Vice Director Multi-position 4 Than The Hung Eng Researcher 5 Pham Quang Viet Eng Researcher 6 Hoang Tuan Minh Eng Researcher _______________ 7 Pham Van Tuan Eng Researcher _______________ 8 Tran Thi Thiem Eng Researcher Stationary 3.2.2. The list of collaborators No Full name Degree, institution Assoc.Prof.Dr. Lecturer, Faculty of I Nguyen Truong Son Land and Environment agriculture Fields of research Environment in rural 2 Bui l-lai Trieu Lecturer, Assoc.Prof. Dr Farm Ingeneering Lecturer, Faculty of Rural Economic and Agriculture Development of household Tran Huu Cuong Development economic Assoc.Prof. Dr Deputy Dean of 4 Nguyen Xuan Thanh Faculty of Land and Environment blo micro technology 5 Doan Van Lu Dr. VAC, Horticulture Dr. Lecturer, Faculty of Land and 6 Do Nguyen Hai Environment Soilscience 7 Le Van Lanh Veterinary Doctor Veterinary Dr. Lecturer, Faculty of Land and 8 Nguyen Nhu Ha Environment Agrochemistry 9 Nguyen Ba Mui Dr., Lecturer Animal Husbandry 10 Dang Tien Hoa Dr., Lecturer Farm Ingeneering I Nguyen Van Huu Lecturer Farm In eneerin 12 Trong Thi Toan Master, Lecturer MA. Lecturer, Faculty of Rural Economic and Agriculture 13 Nguyen Duy Linh Development Faarm Ingeneering 14 Nghiem Thi Bich Ha Lecturer MA. Lecturer, Faculty of 15 Trinh Thi Mai Dung Agronomy. MA. Lecturer, Faculty of Land 16 Le Thi Giang and Environment Lecturer, Faculty of Land and 17 - Nguyen Huu Cu Environment Agronomy Agricultural Economics Horticulture GIS SoiJscience * Specialization and experience of regular staffs and collaborators 100 percent staffs and collaborators are scientists who currently are lecturers and researchers at HAIl. The Center has gathered many scientists of different Fields in agriculture development area (see the list). More than 70% staffs and collaborators have been over 15-year experience, presided and participated in many research project of HAIl, held management position at HAIl. They have been project leaders, secretary of project or consult specialists for many projects in Centre. The young researchers of Center have employed following the fields of HAIl and now have been conducting the research project in the Centre under the employ-contract scheme for research centers of HAIl * Management structure of Center * The purpose of Center: - Sustainable Agriculture Research Development Centre (SARDC) is a research and education Center of HAIl. The Center was spontaneously founded since 1996, taking sustainable agriculture development of nation as the aim of the action. - Relying on internal capacity, together with widening cooperation relation within and outside country to make the Center become the institution of researching, transferring technology, educating university graduation, post-graduation and strengthening researchers on agriculture sustainable development lining multifield and inter-field approach. - Parallel with the activities of research, graduation, consulting and supplying services the Center pays suitable concern to short training courses for employee, disseminates the information and knowledge of environment and natural resources conservation and of sustainable development to pupil, student and community - Conducting assigned research project at State, Ministry level and cooperation research program with international institutions on the fields of land use, environment conservation and sustainable agriculture development. - Building data base, editing and writing literatures for researching, lecturing and training on the fields of sustainable agriculture development. Some of special subjects have been built for specific purposes of graduation at HAIl. - Calling sponsor sources within and outside nation, making scholarship Rind "Sustainable agriculture development" * Receiving fund: Finance source have been received from domestic and international research projects under the decision and accept of HAIl * None of above projects has been received fund from any sponsors in this festival 5. Address Institution: Sustainable Agriculture Research Development Centre (SARDC) Address: Trau Quy - Cia Lam - Ha Noi TeL: 04 8 765992 Fax: 04 8 276554 Email: sardcQthnu I .cdu.vn Person who respond for this project: Asst. Prof Dr. Dao Chau Thu Function and duty: Vice Director TeL: 04 8 765992 Fax: 04 S 276554 Email: cliauthu-hau I (a)ljn.vn 6. Bank account: The Center has no individual bank account, just through account of HAIl II. THE CONTENT OF PROJECT Scientific and practical base for building project (I) Social-Economic conditions of Dang Xa, Gia Lam, Hanoi * Being a purely farming commune in pen-urban, belonging to the areas of safe vegetable production of Ha Noi, Da Xa has built 100 million VNDI ha safe vegetable area under the guideline of commune, co-operative and unions. Q oz U2# z C z z C Cu C z 0 o U2 41 41 F41 C z C 41 Fci, Q Cr -# z z -# C U) C O# * In Dang Xa, the farmers have a well-off living; they have experience of vegetable production and ability for applying new technology for safe vegetable production. * In Dang Xa, the problems that impact on environment and vegetable production have not yet implemented the solution of using organic waste and agriculture waste which could create organic fertilizer for producing high quality of vegetable, could make environment green, clean and beautiful for new urban landscape. The rubbish dumps near the village, the road, the waste of vegetable, maize, and straw on the field have been pollution sources for environment, and disease sources for vegetable. (2) Building the model of producing organic fertilizer by bio-technology at commune level aim at dealing with: * Satisfying the demand of farmers in self producing organic fertilizer by organic waste and agriculture waste adapting to local conditions * Producing good quality fertilizer, shortening composting duration and saving expensive equipments in production * Solving pollution environment in local area where the waste are increasingly and have no place to hide * Producing safe organic fertilizer with quality, economic for agriculture production, especially for organic agriculture production. * Educating, promoting farmers participate in collecting and separating household organic waste and agriculture waste to supply material for organic fertilizer production, and helping farmer real understand and integrate to "waste economy". (3) The project has contributed for solving urgent problems as following: * Managing the source of household organic waste and agriculture waste: the community collect and separate organic waste and agricuJture waste at beginning (at household or in the filed) * Applying the model of organic fertilizer production by organic waste and agriculture waste on microbio-technology with small scale to produce organic fertilizer in rural areas. * Organizing the specialize training courses for participants. The studies and experiments of project aim to strengthen knowledge and production and management ability for beneficiaries. (4) The creatives of these solutions have been shown as following: * Educating, disseminating and promoting community participate in collecting anti separating organic waste and agriculture waste at household or in the filed to produce organic fertilizer and reduce environment pollution in rural areas Micro-organic fertilizer production of Song Gianh Company, Tien Nong Company, Cia Thuy Co-operative and some of waste processing companies in the city ... have collected and disposed organic waste to micro-organic fertilizer. However, they are still tattered, especially their processing have not yet separated waste, there's much of solid mixture and they have not yet succeeded on collecting and separating organic waste and agriculture waste at origin. So, they have not yet saved the labors, and it is costly in processing waste. * Producing organic fertilizer by advance technology but in small scale at commune/village level: Adapting to investment and management ability of local production and producing organic fertilizer with high quality for beneficiaries who are vegetable farmers. Currently, the Government has invested for waste processing manufacture, producino organic fertilizer with advance technology and large scale in the cities, not concerned to small scale, adapting for waste processing in rural area. Processing organic waste and reproducing to organic fertilizer for vegetable which greatly contribute for safe vegetable production in penurban have not been concerned yet. * The project will help the farmers take part in "waste economy", changing organic waste and agriculture waste which have been buried into worth fertilizer, reducing fillIand area. (5) The project will directly impact on rural community: * In the commune where the project has been conducted, the farmers will live in cleaner, safer living environment. * The farmer households who have safe vegetable production areas in the commune will have adding bio-organic for production or selling this organic fertilizer to near by com in u n e. (6) Requirements of success * Encourage the community's willingness and enthusiasm in taking part to the project's activities, particularly in separation of organic waste * Construct small scale stations of organic waste processing which is available for the adaptation of rural community by using biotechnological techniques. * Contribute to environmental solutions and precise farming development through reducing area of rubbish field and increasing the use of compost for farming practices. (7) Additional explanation 7.1. Project impact Project's activities will result to positive effects on households where organic waste composting stations are located. These effects are presented in two aspects as follows: In economics aspect: * To supply a low-cost and safe compost for fruit trees and vegetable production in suburb areas * To reduce area of rubbish filed, and household cost-saving for agricultural inputs through organic waste and agricultural waste comosting at commune. * To construct a low-cost of composting station with advanced techniques that allows to reduce the composting time and to increase the compost quality.in comparation with the old traditional composting technique * To reduce labor cost and other investments on waste treatment and waste composting based on community management. In social aspect: * To improve farmers' awareness on environmental and landscape protection in suburbs and rural area * To promote the use of compost for clean/safe vegetable production by supplying trainings, meetings, and demonstrations. 7.2. Project expansion JThe idea of building a waste processing station based on rural community management is assured to gain the success in application in rural area not only because of the above logical project's content but also from the increasing requirements including: * Suburbs in Vietnam are coping with a bottle neck of solid and agricultural waste treatment. The construction of large waste processing stations or the expansion of municipal environmental protection factories is irrelevant for solving rubbish in these areas. Meanwhile, area for waste treatment purpose is very limited. Therefore, the suitable solution of this problem is really questionable. * According to the report of Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development, Vietnam is largely lacking of compost due to many reasons, particularly from the farmers' avoidance of traditionally producing compost at household level. In addition, there is an increasing situation that farmers often fire by-products in their fields after harvests which would lead to the increase of green house effects. Therefore, an advanced techniques is required to meet the demand of compost application and rural environmental protection. Ill. PLANNING OF ACTIVITIES This project will be ended in 1 year with the following activities: NO Time months I Propagandize and recommend of rural communities in collecting and se aratin or anic and a ricultural waste at communal level 2 Construct of a communal waste com ostin station Collect and transport organic waste to the composting station and 6 Activities 6-8 2-3 Report writin IV. STAKEHOLDERS' BENEFIT AND PARTICIPATION I. Project's beneficiaries Households in Dang Xa commune will be the project's beneficiaries. They will together cooperate with the project implementing institution for activities listed above, and finally benefit from project's performance. For instant, those households in Dang Xa commune are highly appreciate to participate in this project since they are expecting to have a waste processing station based on experience of 2 years of cooperation with SARDC in applying compost for clean vegetable production. In detail project beneficiaries in Dang Xa commune are including: * 1931 households with 8000 members (95% of them are farmer households) will be benefited from cleaner environment and self-producing compost for vegetable production. * The agricultural cooperative of Dang Xa commune will manage the operation of the waste processing station to supply compost for farmers within Dang Xa and communes nearby. * The communal women Union (14 subunions ) and commune schools 2. There is no beneficiary in building project proposal. 3. Participants' contribution * Households will participate in collecting and separating organic waste from families' garbage, public areas, and cultivation fields * The communal farmers' association and women union will support the agricultural cooperative to transport collected organic wastes to the composting station. * Two people from the agricultural cooperative will cooperate with technical staff in composting organic wastes at the station. * The cooperative will deliver compost to households producing vegetables, and cooperate with technical staff to build demonstrations on compost application * Communal authority, Cooperative, Farmers Association, Women Ilnion, communal extensionist, and project' staff will regularly monitor the project's activities, as well as organize meetings and trainings to improve the community's capacity in maintaining and expanding project's results. 4. Project's Transfer and Maintenance At the end of the project, the processing station will be transferred to Dang Xa commune, and its operation will be maintained by: * Communal environmental staff and women Union will manage and monitor the collection and separation of organic wastes. * The Dang Xa agricultural cooperative will manage the operation of composting station following transferred technological procedures, and deliver the produced compost to farmers * The Communal Farmers' Association and extensionist will support farmers in applying compost for vegetables production. S. Participants from Dang Xa commune are not included in the submission of the Project's Proposal. They will only participate in the implementation stage if the project is approved (as indicated in section lV.4). The key local person that SARDC contacts with is Mr. Nguyen The [liep - I-lead of Dang Xa Agricultural Cooperative. 6. Project implementing institution SARDC has carried out a research on compost production procedures and compost trials for two years in some vegetables production areas of Hanoi. Preliminary result from this research has indicated that it would be and should be applied in rural area. Therefore, SARDC is highly appreciate to be funded by the Program of "Action for Environment" to construct a complete demonstration of compost production, delivery, and application at communal level. SARDC will provide trainings for local members on technical procedures and participatory methods as well as promote the participation of different actors within local community to ensure the success of the project. THE PICTURES OF THE RESEARCH ACTIVITIES ON COMPOSTING FROM ORGANIC AND AGRICULTURE WASTE FOR CLEAN VEGETABLE PRODUCTION Collection and separatiuon of organic waste at home Composting house Mashine for compost making Compost product for organic C I Conpost using for cabage planting at commune field Conpost using for tomato planting at commune field After ending the project, SARDC's staff and researchers will continue to contact and support for local community in maintaining the compost production. V. The Project Budget I. Estimation of project budget: The total project's budget is 12,000 USD; of which 10,000 IlSD is in cash. 2. The budget financed by the Vietnam creative contest' award is 10,000 USI) 3. Financial Planning Project's activities _____________ Financial sources Donors of Funded Other source Total the creative institution _____________________________ contest I. Propagandize and 1500 IlSD 200 ltD encourage local community to collect and separate organic waste _____________ _____________ 1700 IlSD 2. Construct a communal 3000 USD 100 IlSD 1000 IlSD 4106 IlSD waste composting station _____________ _____________ . Produce compost 2000 IlSD 200 IlSD 2400 IlSD IblIowing biotechnological procedures _____________ _____________ 4. Monitor the composting process ; and analyze the compost quality 5. Experiment compost application on clean vegetable production 1500 USD 2000 IlSD 300 IlSD 1800 USD ____________ 200 USD 2200 IlSD _____________ _____________ Total 10,000 IlSD 1000 USD 1000 USD 12,000 IlSD * Funded Institution is the SARDC, Hanoi Agricultural Ilniversity since its operation is funded by SARDS's own budget * Other source is from the contribution of Dang Xa agricultural cooperative in term of land and labors for the operation of processing station. This share of the Cooperative is originated from the understanding of project's objectives and benefit transfers to people in Dang Xa commune. Based on the information collected from different sources, SARDC would like to thank for the Donors and Organizers of the meaningful contest. Prepared by: Assoc. Prof Dr. Dao C'hau Tha, Hanoi, 1 May,2OOS Vke- Director of SARDC