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Best Management Practices for Digestate

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This short guideline from the Canadian Biogas Association / Farming Biogas explains how farmers can use digestate effectively and safely. It outlines digestate properties, including its similarity to manure but with more available nutrients and reduced odour. The document presents “4R” best management practices: right rate, right time, right place and right method of application. It also discusses pathogen inactivation, regulatory aspects and how to avoid nutrient losses to water and air. The focus is very practical, aimed at on-farm decision making.

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Written by Maria Dodou
Dr. Maria Zachariou-Dodou is civil and public health engineer, with MSc degree from University College London and PhD in Chemical Engineering from NTUA in the field of wastewater treatment and reuse. She has 40-year experience in working both in the public sector in Cyprus, as well as in the private sector in a large number of countries with emphasis on water resources management, water treatment and reuse, and desalination processes. She has a great experience in designing and implementing EU funded projects mostly dealing with providing innovative solutions to environmental challenges.

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