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Chicken Litter and Sewage Sludge Power Generation in Greater ...

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<strong>Chicken</strong> <strong>Litter</strong><br />

• <strong>Chicken</strong> consumption has <strong>in</strong>creased <strong>in</strong> Botswana, <strong>and</strong> so has<br />

chicken production.<br />

• A major chicken producer has 14 chicken production farms<br />

with<strong>in</strong> 30km of Gaborone, each with an average stock hold<strong>in</strong>g of<br />

40,000 chicks per cycle.<br />

• Total chicken litter production for this one producer is currently<br />

60,000tons/year.<br />

• <strong>Litter</strong> is disposed of semi dry at l<strong>and</strong>fills, while a small portion is<br />

taken by farmers as manure.<br />

• <strong>Chicken</strong> producers are keen to have the litter disposed of<br />

properly but do not have the means.

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