Himalya International Ltd has announced that the Company has developed a new generation of Organic Manure. This invention came out with the Company's vision of Organic Farming which started three years back when the State Pollution Control Board pushed it to closure. The Company along with 'Natura Agroconsultants' performed R & D on the disposal of its Spent Mushroom Substrate (SMS) and in the process hit the jackpot by converting its waste, voluminous SMS into the richest of organic manure.
The process ensures faster break down of its effluents in a shorter period of time by adopting a Bio-Dynamic composting technique. The Company has an annual disposal of 15,000 tons of 'Spent Compost' from its mushroom operations besides the huge disposal from its Vegetable and Cheese processing activities.
The Company will now convert all the organic waste of its food-processing unit including vegetable peels, mushroom roots and even the effluent disposal of its newly installed cheese plant into organic manure rich in essential nutrients for plant growth. The Company is embarking on an ambitious plan to use all its organic manure for organic produce by its contract farmers in Himachal Pradesh.
The Company is presenting this technology at the 2nd International SMS Symposium being held from September 17, 2006 to September 20, 2006 at Concordville, PA, USA. Penn State University & the American Mushroom Institute (AMI) has organized the symposium.
The Company is in the process of filing its patent for this process. The Company's Overseas Mushroom Partners & its Foreign Collaborator shall assist in marketing this new technology to the US mushroom growers and the Company expects robust earnings from the dissemination of this revolutionary techno1ogy.