Zim Torrential Rains Good News With Human Faeces & Urine ‘safe’ On Crops

The heavy rains that have been on and off country wide have been an immense blessing in coming in handy to co-work with natural human Faeces Fertilizer and urine which is a cheaper source for most Zimbabwean subsistence and commercial farmers.This comes on the backdrop of fertilizer costs which have been soaring, contributing to the rapid rise in global food prices and putting increased pressure on farmers and shoppers where some local researchers have suggested human waste could provide a “viable and safe” long-term alternative.

Investigations by TechnoMag in Mabvuku Tafara, Eastview, Waterfalls and other surrounding areas aerial views showed individuals with hoes , some even with a tractor spreading fertiliser on wheat and maize fields .

The local researchers TechnoMag spoke to warned soaring farming costs mostly driven by high fertiliser prices could leave millions of Zimbabweans starving.

A local scientist told TechnoMag that, “Fertiliser made from human faeces and urine is safe to use in agriculture,” adding that, it has “huge potential” to replace 25% of current synthetic products in some countries, according to research.

These findings come as farmers continue to struggle with rising fertiliser costs due to a combination of climate change and the war in Ukraine which has vastly impacted the world at large affecting every Economy Zimbabwe included.

The local scientist said, “Researchers screened human waste for 310 chemicals – including rubber additives, insect repellents and pharmaceuticals – and only found them in 6.5% of the samples examined, but still at low concentrations.”

He said, “low levels of the painkiller ibuprofen and mood-stabilising drug carbamazepine were found – but added that someone would have to eat more than 500,000 cabbage heads to accumulate a dose equal to one pill.”

One student at Midlands State University, said products made from human urine and faeces “are viable and safe nitrogen fertilisers” and “did not show any risk regarding transmission of pathogens or pharmaceuticals.”