
Hivos assists farmers with biodigesters and bioslurry management. Due to successful results farmers now request new high value protein sources. The practitioners knowledge question of the project would be whether duckweed can become a profitable and safe high protein fodder for cattle (fattening and dairy) and fish production, while applying cow dung based on high protein feeding as digester feed stock to create high quality organic fertilizer. This plant will be introduced to five farming households in combination with a bio-digester and a fish pond to assess the profitability of producing Lemna (duckweed) to enhance the growth of animals (cows and fish) and the quality of biodigestate to increase crop yields. To optimize all streams within the integrated farming system Lemna and bio-digestate will be analyzed in labs and yields will be monitored; research results will be used to guide farming families to reach a profitable, sustained mixed farming system.