Tottori Resource Recycling, Inc.

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Introduction of Porous Alpha for water saving agriculture in arid zone

Tottori Resource Recycling, is a Japanese company producing soil ameliorant from recycled glass

Tottori Resource Recycling Inc. – Established: 2001 – Paid up capital: 30 mil. JPY – Number of employee: 9 – Activity: Recycling glasses to

manufacture Porous Alpha

Porous Alpha – Porus Alpha is foamed glass

made from recycled glass by burning in 1000 °C

– This product has numerous porous with diversified size which imporove the water retention capacity of soil and the aeration in the soil

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The soil improvement with Porous Alpha can reduce the water consumption and increase the yield

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Irrigation

Après l’évaporation et transmission d’eau

Évaporation Le « Porus Alpha » peut absorber

d’eau D’eau n’est pas évaporé et transmis

en bas

Le sol avec « Porus Alpha » peut retenir d’eau et de créer un espace approprié avec de l’air

Avec « Porus α », il est attendu non seulement la réduction d’eau, mais aussi l’amélioration des rendements

Porus α

Situation avec « Porus α » Situation actuelle

Transmission

Tuyaux Tuyaux

Porous Alpha is the product of Safe, Simple, Durable

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Simple - Just mix with soil - No need to complex

calculation - No need to new

investment for water infrastructure

Durable - No degradation - Perform more than

10 years

Safe - No negtive impact to

soil and agricultural product

- Compliant to Japanese regulation related to soil contamination

The field test of Tomato in Mauritania shows that the existence of Porous Alpha almost doubles the yield

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Field with Porous Alpha Field without Porous Alpha

0.83kg/m2

1.54kg/m2

Yiel

d Comparison of the yield between field with & without Porous Alpha in Mauritania (2009)

The test with green beans in Senegal also shows the yield of field with Porus Alpha is 80% higher than the field without Porus Alpha

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Yield of green beans in the field of 10m * 10m in Senegal (2013)

* 3rd harvest was done only for one of the six lignes in each condition

Condition 1st harvest 6/1/2014

2nd harvest 12/1/2014

3rd harvest(*) 21/1/2014

With Porous Alpha

73 kg

57 kg

4kg

Without Porous Alpha

58 kg

24 kg

2kg

x 1.26 x 2.38 x 2.0 x 1.88 (In average)

Comparison: Two months after seeding With Porus α Withoug Porus α

Contact

Shigeomi Sato (Mr.)

Director, Middle East and Africa sato@t-rrl.jp

http://t-rrl.jp/

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