April 9: Saakha Group, which has been engaged in the business of steel, housing, painting and others, has entered into commercial production of compost fertilizer as well. Saakha Group, which has started trial production in collaboration with some municipalities of Bhaktapur, has been producing compost manure commercially for four months now.
The director of Saakh Group, Kiran Prakash Saakha said that the production of compost fertilizer has been started in Nepal by establishing a subsidiary company under the group. To produce such fertilizer, the group established Rikisi Daiichi Compost Fertilizer and Agro Farm Pvt. Ltd. in Dudhauli Municipality of Sindhuli, where Saakha is the president of the company.
According to him, the company introduced fertilizer to the market commercially in collaboration with Rikisi Compost Pvt. Ltd. The company is producing compost fertilizer using the Japanese “CNBN” technology.
“Nowadays, on the one hand, waste management in municipalities has become a challenge. Where on the other hand billions of rupees are being spent on importing chemical fertilizers in the country,” Saakha said.
He said that production of compost fertilizer started in collaboration with Thimi and other municipalities of Bhaktapur. After the success of the trial production, they started producing fertilizer commercially. Saakha claims that the quality of the fertilizer is good and that the fertilizer is produced according to the standards set by the government.
Currently, the company is producing 580 tons of compost in one lot. He said that this compost fertilizer will work like chemical fertilizers and that its production will be further expanded in cooperation with all municipalities.
This fertilizer is produced from raw materials such as cattle dung, dung, leaf litter, and red soil. According to Saakha, the manure is odorless and can be used in vegetable, paddy and fruit crops. According to Kiran Saakha, the company will continue to produce fertilizers in collaboration with the private sector and municipalities in the future.
