Reaping twice from selling Rabbit urine!

What we naturally dispose off because we consider them as waste could as well be the next money spinner! Just as kenyan’s rabbit farmer Peter Maina has found out and earning good from selling the urine of his rabbits, YES, THE URINE OF RABBITS!

Pouring a brown liquid into a 20 litre container slowly to avoid spilling it.

It takes him about five minutes to fill the container with the liquid that looks like dirty water. “Now I have 200 litres, I have five more 20 litre containers to fill,” says Maina with a sigh of relief.

He is a rabbit farmer in Kariobangi, Nairobi. He not only rears rabbits for sale but he harvests their urine. Though he went into rabbit farming so that he can sell them as they fetch good money. But mid into the venture, he discovered that he can make more money from selling rabbit urine, which is used to make organic fertilizer. He owns over 60 rabbits comprising of California White and New Zealand breeds.

Growing Strawberries in bags!

Michael Njau with strawberries he grows in polythene bags in his farm

Michael Njau with strawberries he grows in polythene bags in his farm

Michael Njau calls himself an experimental farmer. The 26-year-old does not follow what others consider the normal way of growing crops. The strawberry farmer grows the fruits in polythene bags in what he says started as an experiment, which has paid off.

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Cooking with the Flexi Biogas

Bio-digesters generating gas

Once the Flexi Biogas system is installed, fresh dung mixed with water to a smooth consistency is added into the orange pipe in the foreground. Once in the bag, it begins to ferment and move slowly across the digester till it is “exhausted”. Gas that is formed presses down on the slurry and pushes the exhausted dung out of the orange pipe in the background. If the gas pressure rises because not enough gas is being used, it will simply push more dung out the other end.

Tapping Plastic to light up Poor households.

Mr Mwangi Ngatia displays oil extracted from waste plastic using a locally made reactor

Mwangi Ngatia has come up with an idea of producing liquid fuel from waste plastics, targeting the poor people who have been hurt by the increasing prices of fuel. A resident of Nyeri town, his immediate focus is the slums. Mr Ngatia, 52, says that there more than 10,000 people living in the three slums of Nyeri and 98 per cent of them cannot afford to buy paraffin for cooking at their homes. Instead, he says they use firewood for cooking and candles to light at night.