Cleaner Greener China: Clean Technology, Green Products, New Ideas, Clean China

As part of the Market Movers Series, the IFC and sustainability have released a profile of three sustainable enterprises they have been working with.  One of them is the Deqingyuan Chicken farm.

Located near Beijing, the Deqingyuan Chicken Farm is being highlighted for its sustainable practices in many areas:

1) Quality of life for chickens

protecting the environment that birds live in, ensuring adequate cage size and siting and providing good quality feed, thereby reducing the incidence of disease and the need for antibiotic use in egg production.

2) EHS

Deqingyuan has purchased advanced equipment to address this problem, and provides a health care system for its employees.

3) Waste Management

Deqingyuan turns much of it into fertiliser which it sells to nearby farmers. But the company now produces far more waste than it can absorb, so the company has constructed a biogas plant, which will come on stream in late 2007.

4) Benefit to Community

So it provides high-grade organic fertiliser (made from its own waste) to local farmers to enable them to grow corn, which Deqingyuan guarantees to buy as feedstuff at a higher-than-market price.

The results:

is now producing about 480,000 high-grade eggs a day and accounts for over 70% of the (growing) branded egg market in Beijing.

to learn more about this project, you can visit the IFC Project ovrview or download the full report