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JUAN de HERRERA, Dominican Republic.- The earthworms have changed the economic profile of the municipality Juan Herrera, San Juan province (west) from a project which such good results the U.S. Embassy selected it as a model project in the Southern region.
It began at yearend 2004 from an initiative of Dominican Research and Development Institute, in alliance with the Juan Herrera City Council and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The Juan de Herrera Organic Fertilizer factory uses the humus from earthworms to make a clean, high quality fertilizer.
The RD$2 million project’s minimal infrastructure includes a shed and a production area of nine tanks and a reservoir to collect drainage water, yielding a liquid fertilizer of excellent properties. To initiate the project the Factory bought 260,000 Californian earthworms, which are already produced in the country.
The small earthworms, which are efficient in converting waste into organic humus, don’t like the heat, for which the channels must be watered several times daily.
The plant produces 360 quintals of humus in each cycle and around 100 quintals monthly if demand requires it.
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They will starve you then enslave you, it is all planned fellows.
http://www.mommiesmagazine.com/make-organic-fertilizer-worms/2599/
S.
You kook kind of cute in this picture !
Did you know, that like you, Earthworms are hermaphrodites!
Win/Win situation, no matter how you might spin it.
Last time I saw a worm like that, it had a hook in it.
rodney i miss you
Josean vas a comer carne. lol
We Haitians may be poor but we don't take food from our neighbour mouth to feed ourselves, besides we don't eat earthworms in our country. You the Dominicans are really master denialers. Your people are eating earthworm and they are selling them to each other and you are joking about it, what kind of mentally retarded are you?
Once again, your country like mine is sitting on a huge oil reserve and instead of asking your government why it hasn't been exploited in order to bring prosperity to your people, all you find to do is to throw silly jokes in the air.
I am very glad I am not your countryman, it would have given me some real doubt about my mental stability.
Where are getting the idea the worms are for eating? They are for decomposing! Can't you read?
For the ones who do not know:
-Dominican Republic was the fist country who started mass recycling. Back in the 70's and early eighties we had the "BOTELLEROS" They were men who in a "carretas" went thru the barrios buying and collecting glass and plastic bottles.
The purperias or colmados paid 5 cents when you return the soda or mabi bottles. If you remember, you never saw bottles in the streets, they were supper clean.
-We were one of the first countries to use the treatment plant sludge and convert ii into "Abono or fertilizer"
My aunt used to pick free Abono from La cluaca (treatment plant) in Santiago for her garden. This was free you just had to go and ask. Not too many people knew about it. This was in the 70's and early eighties.
-I really do not know why this great practice was abandoned, we got too Americanized, and we need to get to the basics.