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Ur Next Gf: Urine As Next Generation Fertilizer With Meat And Bone Meal Applied On Vigna Radiata (Monggo Plant), Sachie Daniela G. Cheung, Azelea M. Dionisio, Sarah Michaella I. Madayag, Anna Sophia L. Sampang

DLSU Senior High School Research Congress

Fertilizers play an important role in providing crops with essential nutrients such as nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K), which supplements plant growth. Compared to synthetically composed commercial fertilizers, next generation fertilizers are manufactured from low-energy mechanisms and are composed of nutrients from repurposed wastes which make them cost-efficient and sustainable. With the objective of determining which would deem to be an effective next generation fertilizer, we focus on human urine and meat and bone meal, to which its processing included solar drying, freezing, grinding, and utilizing additives to prevent fungal growth as well as improve efficacy. Three iterations, …