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Que 2 A. Read the extract and complete the activities given below
12 Marks
Keeping cities clean is essential for keeping their residents healthy. Our health depends not just on
personal hygiene and nutrition, but critically also on how clean we keep our cities and then
Soroundings. The challenge of processing and treating the different streams of solid waste and safe
disposal of the residuals in scientific landfulls, has received much less attention in municipal solid waste
management
Cily compost from biodegradable waste provides an alternative to farmyard manure llike cow.
duna). It provides an opportunity to simultaneously clean up our cities and help improve agricultural
productivity and quality of the soil
. Organic manure or compost plays a very important role as a
supplement to chemical fertilizers in enriching the nutrient deficient soils. City compost can be the
new player in the field. Benefits of compost on the farm are well-known. The water holding capacity
of the soil which uses compost helps with drought-proofing, and the requirement of less water per
crop is a welcome feature for a water stressed future. By making the soil porous, use of compost also
makes roots stronger and resistant to pests and decay. Farmers using compost, therefore, need less
quantity of pesticides.
Clly compost has the additional advantage of being weed-free unlike farmyard manure which
brings with it the seeds of undigesled grasses and requires a substantial additional labour cost lor
weeding as the crops grow. City compost is also rich in organic carbon, and our soils are short in this
Farmers clearly recognize the value of city compost. If city waste was composted before making it
available to the farmers for applying to the soil, cities would be cleaned up and the fields around
them would be much more productive.
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