University of Tropical Agriculture
UTA Foundation at
the Ecological Farm

 

After two years, spent in consolidating the infrastructure of the ecological farm, we are now in a position to initiate research into the different components of the farming system, which are outlined below.  Recent developments in each of these areas will be detailed in terms of the propose activities and the results as these become available. Initially we describe the installation and management of the gasifier, which is expected to begin as from..

 
  Crops Live stock Recycling/Energy  
  Sugar cane
Mulberry (Morus alba)
Mexican sunflower
(Tithonia diversifola)
Water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica)
Bananas
Cacao
Coffee
Bamboo (for construction and gasifier feedstock)
Trees (for lumbar and gasifier feedstock)
Forage trees

 

Pigs
Goats
Sheep
Rabbits
Chickens
Cattle
Horse (animal traction)
Biodigesters
Gasifiers
Black Soldier Fly
(Hermetia lucens)sifier
Gasifier (cane trash India)
 

 

 

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