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Fertiliser from vege waste succeeds
Publication date 06 June 2023 | 20:52 | ICT

Organic vegetable waste is overlooked by many people and thought of as worthless garbage, but a young woman in the capital’s Chbar Ampov district has hit upon the idea of turning it into fertiliser for agricultural crops, contributing to

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