Case Studies
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EM for Sustainable Society
Colombia
There is a city called Cajica in Colombia where environmental problems became serious which they believe stem from precarious community-management of household wastes. The city’s catholic organization called FUNDASES decided to improve the situation with 55000 residents in the city. Through their educational programs and training, children and adults learned how to make wastes compost with EM Technology for soil conditioning.
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Kibera Changed with EM Technology
Kenya
The Kibera slum, the largest slum in East Africa, is in Kenya where a million people stay without well-established infrastructure(e.g., no tap water, poorly conditioned toilets). To improve the environment, a group of organizations and the Kenya government established a joint venture to improve the sanitation with EM Technology while creating jobs for those who seek. more
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Students Give Back to the Community with EM
New Zealand
Students at University of Canterbury, New Zealand decided to recycle the food waste for compost in 2010. The recycling process was set up from putting the food wastes into wheelie bins to fermenting the mixture of the wastes and EM Bokashi to using for soil treatment.
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High quality olive oil from EM-grown olives trees
Spain
Olives grown with passion and EM give high quality fruits to produce delicious and healthy oil. more
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Agri-eco Tourism with EM
Philippines
Costales family runs a farm growing food and farming in- and out of water in south of Manila, Philippines. Their style is nature farming, which was awarded by the president in 2012. Farming was not the only business of theirs. They hold workshops to spread EM Technology use in the neighborhood.
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EM philosophy in Soybean Stubble
Uruguay
This paper explains EM application in a large-scale soybean farm and lists the effects. It shows a cost-performance per ha to apply EM Technology in soybean farming. The effects (e.g., improving the soil, preventing the seed from having pathogens) are included many enough to support the value of applying the technology. more
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EM Makes Fine Tomatoes Sale
Paraguay
Imagine a 50m x50m farm full of tomatoes and all of them were affected by bacterial spot. EM would be one of your options to improve the situation. As a matter of fact, at a tomato farm in Paraguay, EM was used for the same issue. more
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Leaf Vegetables Immune To Disease
Brazil
Is it possible to grow healthy vegetables without insecticide? Here is a good example from Brazil where EM has been applied to make it happen, using hydroponics system. Key is the use of Activated EM・1. How to use it effectively is summarized in the following:
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Largest Tomato Grower
South Africa
ZZ2 is well known as the largest tomato grower in South Africa. Their mass production has been more fruitful since 2002 when they started using EM in farming. For instance, their apple production has been better, increasing calcium content of fruit by 30%. On top of that, they have not been infected. more
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My Life is Organic Farming
Thailand
A man called Mr. Oga had a dream of promoting organic farming in Thailand. He started using EM since 1999, and today he has been training many farmers to start organic farming in Thailand. His base is Harmony Life Organic Farm. more
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Fungus Diseases in Banana Vanished
Costa Rica
Costa Rica has shifted its agenda toward farming from massive production with chemical fertilizer to eco-friendly production. Following the direction, EARTH University has started using EM instead of chemical materials in their farming since 2000. The effects are positive, especially convincing for controlling Black Sigatoka fungus disease in bananas and plantains. more
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Recovering of Radioactive Contaminated Soil - Pilot Test
Japan
This report is one of the experiments conducted in Fukushima by our R & D Department and presented at the 6th Environmental Forum in Fukushima in November 2015. more