Isaac Asare, Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic and Olufunke. Cofie

In: UA Magazine 10 - Appropriate (Micro) Technologies for Urban Agriculture

The use of human waste as a source of fertiliser in developing countries as a whole and particularly in Ghana, has not received much recognition (Laryea, 1998). Due to poor soil fertility, and lack of financial means to buy chemical fertiliser, farmers in the drier parts of Ghana frequently resort to the use of human waste i.e. faecal sludge (FS) for agriculture. In the nineties, Owusu-Bennoah and Visker (1994) reported that 90% of collected night soil in Tamale municipality was used as fertilizer. This paper describes the ingenuity of small-scale farmers in the use of faecal sludge for crop production in Tamale Municipality.