Animal Waste and Renewable Energy seminar this Thursday!!
(Project to assess profitability of pig waste in Bio-energy productions)
WHO: Professor Jens Born, expert in Green-Engineering and Bio-energy production from the Flemsburg University in Germany
Dr. Marc Panton, Chief Technical Director in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Jamaica
Dr. Cedric Lazarus, Livestock Development Officer for FAO’s sub-regional office for the Caribbean (Barbados)
WHAT: presents at a seminar to assess Jamaica’s waste management practices, bio-energy solutions, Environmental preservation and profits for farmers.
WHERE: UTECH Department of Engineering; 5th floor Lecture Room
WHEN: Thursday, February 14, 2013
TIME: 10: 00 a.m.
BACKGROUND:
The FAO, in conjunction with the Jamaica Pig Farmer Association (JPFA), the Caribbean Broilers Group and the University of Technology (UTECH), will be leading an initiative in Jamaica to assess livestock waste management practices and solutions on pig farms and how this can mean more profits and better environmental practices. The initiative is being undertaken with a view to develop synergies between livestock and the renewable energy sector. Potential benefits from these synergies include the development of strategies for environmental preservation, reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from livestock waste and the availability of reliable energy sources for farms and households leading to increase efficiency and profitability of Jamaican pig farms.
To assist in the process the FAO who has contracted the services of an expert in green engineering and bio-energy generation, Professor Jens Born, from Flensburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany. Professor Born and Dr. Cedric Lazarus, FAO’s Regional Livestock Development Officer are currently in Jamaica and have been visiting several pig farms across the island. They will then exchange ideas with members of JPFA and other stakeholders on bio-energy generation; livestock waste management solutions and possibilities at the seminar.
Approximately fifty stakeholders will be convened by the FAO at the University of Technology in Kingston to review the findings of the visits to the selected pig farms that will be made earlier in the week.
Contact: Shanoy Coombs; Communication Consultant
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Jamaica Office + (Bahamas, Belize
1-3 Lady Musgrave Road, Kingston 5; Email: yonahs_18@yahoo.com; Telephone: (876) 427 5248 (876) 9782352: (876) 927 5827; ext: 231; Fax: (876) 927 7573
