{"id":24729,"date":"2026-04-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/?p=24729"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T07:00:14","slug":"composting-slurry-sustainable-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/en\/magazine\/composting-slurry-sustainable-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Composting slurry, the sustainable solution"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How does livestock management affect the environment? Two livestock associations in Segri\u00e0 (Lleida) have turned the problem of slurry into a solution. They have created a pioneering composting plant in the country. We talk about it in a new episode of People, with Miquel Serra, one of the promoters of the project.<\/b><\/h3>\n

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With no more than 10,000 inhabitants, <\/span>Alcarr\u00e0s is the municipality in Europe with the highest density of farms per square kilometre.<\/b> In total, it has 45,000 steers, 35,000 pig mothers, and some 250,000 fattening cattle. That is why, for the neighbours, the management of the nitrogen produced by the slurry was of the utmost importance to comply with European environmental standards. This is how the composting plant project was born, promoted by the two large livestock organisations in the municipality, to convert the slurry into fertiliser.<\/span><\/p>\n

And they did it collectively, as Serra recalls. The project cost them 1.5 million euros. “Cattle manure is better managed. And on pig farms, where we have solid and liquid manure separators, we were interested in being able to manage solid manure. The composting plant had to allow us to manage both manures separately, because <\/span>cattle manure is classified as organic production, and pig manure is not, although it can be used for conventional agriculture<\/b>,” explains Serra, who is a member of the driving force behind Alcarr\u00e0s Bioproductors.<\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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