Burkinabe Engineer Turns Water Hyacinth Into Gold Mine
Published on: Tuesday 23 July 2019
In Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital city, Mariama Mamane, cuts up water hyacinth, fermenting it into a fertilizer and compost for farmers, called Jacigrow. The by-product of the fertilizer is a gas, which Mamane's machine captures in blue plastic square bags.
