Mwatana has created a device that converts tree leaves, agricultural waste, and food residues into organic fertilizer used to turn desert land into fertile soil suitable for various types of agriculture.
Aisha Hassan Mir, a student at the Faculty of Science at Zayed University, said she had decided to find an optimal way to exploit large quantities of tree leaves, various agricultural waste, and food waste that all go to the landfill and turn it into something beneficial to the environment rather than wasting it. .
"The device is capable of producing organic fertilizer completely free of any chemicals that harm the environment or negatively affect the agricultural products that benefit from it," Aisha told Emirates Today.
The idea of the project is to collect the maximum amount of tree leaves and food residues for different types of vegetables, and put them inside the device, which in turn provides a viable environment for the activity of bacteria in terms of temperature and additives that help the process of decomposition, so that these materials turn into organic fertilizer within three weeks Maximum.
She pointed out that the size of the device is small, and can be used in homes, to raise the degree of fertility of the soil of home gardens, and used in the cultivation of trees and plants required by the house, while it can be manufactured with a larger volume to produce large amounts of fertilizer can be used to grow large areas of land. She pointed out that the innovation, which was implemented as a graduation project at the university, won the third place in the exhibition «Science we think», among the best scientific innovations for students, stressing that her specialization in the study of environmental sciences helped her to invent the device, and wished to be produced on a larger scale for greater cultivation Possible area of land.