Witold Rzepiński wins Silver Engineer 2021 in the Innovation category

Through personal contacts with the best HF dairy farms in Europe and study trips for farmers that I organized, it was possible to create a depth of modern milk production technology in the Kurpiov region, thereby ensuring the existence of many farming families. In the worst soils in the country, corn and fine grass mixtures have been cultivated. Intensive milk production is a burden on the environment, but it is a natural buffer and needs to be supported by appropriate measures. Support for the construction of agricultural biogas plants is currently being organised.

In my opinion, an agricultural biogas plant should be part of the milk production technology. This is made possible by Biolectric's technology for producing biogas exclusively from manure. This technology significantly reduces the production of flue gases, and the ferment produced from manure is a natural fertilizer with high fertilizer parameters and additionally does not acidify the soil. This largely eliminates the cost of purchasing fertilisers for the production of bulk feed.

The heat and electricity produced completely eliminates the costs of implementing the technology on the farm, and the net electricity produced is an additional income for the dairy farm.

At the heart of the operation of agricultural biogas plants is the production of electricity and heat and the protection of the environment. A model solution could be an agricultural biogas plant with a capacity of 44 kWe in the farm of Ryszard Tomaszewski in Bąbalice.