Izmir Metropolitan Municipality provided compost training at Kültürpark for sustainable waste management and revitalization of agricultural areas. In the event, which attracted the attention of producers and citizens at the producer market, compost methods that can be easily done in homes and gardens were demonstrated by Buğday Association.
Izmir Metropolitan Municipality continues its efforts to establish sustainable waste management throughout the city. Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Climate Change and Zero Waste Department and Buğday Association organized an event called “We Are Leading Circular Agriculture with Our Local Producers” at the producer market in Kültürpark. Easy methods of compost production were explained to the producers and citizens in Kültürpark in a practical way.
“We aim to initiate an effective process in urban waste management”
Speaking at the event, İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Climate Change and Zero Waste Department Head Işıl Konya said, “We aim to start an effective process in urban waste management by evaluating both food waste and organic waste in İzmir. Buğday Association will also support us in these studies. We will show simple applications that can evaluate food waste in places such as gardens, homes, and maybe even in neighborhoods.”
Compost is the vitality vaccine of the soil
Murat Akhuy from the Wheat Association gave compost training at the event. Murat Akhuy, who informed citizens about compost production before the practical training, stated that compost is a vitality vaccine, an application made to revive soils that have been degraded due to agricultural activities and to restore health and disease resistance to plants. Akhuy said, “No matter what compost method we use, our goal is clear. To revive soils that have lost vitality, have decreased organic matter levels, and are degraded, to restore health and to ensure that the soil ecosystem can feed the plant on its own without the need for chemical pesticides. Compost is one of the fastest tools that will help us reach this goal. It is possible to produce tons of compost in an instant. As you will see here, it is possible to make compost in our wired garden with our own means. It is possible to make bokashi compost in small containers.”
The application has been made
After theoretical information was given, practical training in the field was started. Murat Akhuy explained in detail the compost methods that can be applied at home and in the garden and showed hot compost that can be easily made in gardens and fields and bokashi compost methods suitable for production at home.
