Chicken waste turned into fertilizer in agriculture

In slaughterhouses in Adana, hundreds of thousands of poultry are slaughtered daily and sent to various provinces in Turkey. Years ago, these slaughterhouse wastes were used in chicken flour and fed to chickens again, resulting in news of ‘cannibal chickens’. THE USE OF CHICKEN OFFER AS FEED WAS BANNED Following this news, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry implemented the decision prohibiting the use of chicken offal as feed. Prof. Dr. Selahattin Serin, a faculty member at the Chemistry Department of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Çukurova University in Adana, together with İsa Altınok, thought of turning this waste into liquid amino acid fertilizer in order to use it in agricultural products. THEY TAKEN SLAUGHTERHOUSE WASTE AND TURNED IT INTO LIQUID AMINO ACID FERTILIZER THROUGH CHEMICAL PROCESSES Serin and Altınok took slaughterhouse waste, turned it into liquid amino acid fertilizer through chemical processes and used it in agricultural products used for trial purposes. FERTILIZER THAT MAKES PRODUCTS RESISTANT TO FROST The yield of products using liquid amino acid fertilizer increased and the products became more resistant to frost. Thereupon, the duo presented the project to KOSGEB and received grant support as an R&D and Innovation Project.

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