Greencare Eco Solutions

Eco-Innovation at its best! Making organic fertiliser from biodegradable waste
Government of Flanders
Sustainable Agriculture
Zambia

Greencare Eco Solution’s Umufundo Organic Granular Fertiliser is a special blend of organic matter sourced from bio-degradable wastes. This fertiliser has a wide nutrient base and acts as a soil conditioner as well because it restores and remediates soil profiles and the biodiversity within the soil.

The fertilisers are sold at a very low price to provide an alternative to expensive chemical fertilisers. Therefore, it makes its products and services available to poor and vulnerable groups.

Eco-Inclusive Impacts
Greencare Eco Solutions provides climate-smart agriculture services, such as precision farming through IT integration into agriculture & climate-resilient products directly to farmers (B2C) and agro-dealers (B2B). Greencare has provided 106 Households with organic fertilisers at affordable prices and has created over 20 jobs in the past 12 months. At the same time, each employee has received over 72 hours of training. With its activities, the company has sold over 904 bags of organic granular fertiliser and therefore collected and digested over 50 tonnes of biodegradable wastes and their organic fertilisers, which have been used on over 16 Hectares of farmland for sustainable farming practices and soil remediation.
  • Providing access to organic fertilisers to over 106 households (2023)
  • Offering training on sustainable farming practices
  • Promoting inclusion through the employment of women and youth
  • Collecting and digesting over 50 tonnes of biodegradable waste (2023)
  • Promoting sustainable farming practices and soil remediation through the use of organic fertilisers on over 16 Hectares of farmland (2023)
  • Creating employment for local communities
  • Contributing to the green economy by selling over 904 bags of organic granular fertiliser and 13,822 litres of organic liquid fertiliser (2023)

Partners

Greencare Eco Solutions purchases biodegradable waste from local farmers, processing it into organic fertiliser and other organic growing mediums. Greencare Eco Solutions Ltd makes its products and services available to low-income vulnerable groups by selling them at an affordable price.

USAID Edge supports Greencare with networking events, technology, and access to markets.

Makayane Farms Ltd. uses the company’s organic farming inputs to showcase Live Biodiversity Crop Trials of fertilizers.

Vilma Enterprises is an agro-dealership that stocks Greencare’s various organic farming inputs and integrates them throughout their farmer out-grower schemes.

Style Farms supplies Greencare regularly with tonnes of many types of biodegradable wastes produced at the Diary Farm.