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Background Within the region of Flanders livestock breeding holds a very important position. The intensive character of this sector affects the local environmental equilibrium. Consequently a number of laws and regulations on a regional, federal and European level came into life. These laws need to restrict the harmful effects of excess fertilisation of animal manure and the emission of green house gasses. To comply with these laws the Flemish livestock holder needs to process a percentage of the farm's animal manure. The valuable end product of this industrial operation, which is free of pathogens and has a high dry matter contents, will be exported to foreign countries to be used as soil amendments, organic fertilizer, soil improvers, etc.... To facilitate the growth of the manure processing industry in Flanders the Flemish government thought it wise to invest in a project to investigate the possibilities, limitations, requirements and impulses for the export of organic fertilizer... |
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Project description In November 2000 this project started at the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Economics, Faculty of Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences of the Catholic University of Leuven. The project investigates the feasibility of the export of organic fertilizer of animal origin to foreign countries. The feasibility of the export is limited by transportation costs, legal constraints, subsidies and the agricultural situation in the countries that are being screened. Regions of interest are: Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean, Western Africa, South-East Asia and Latin America. |
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