Japanese product saves water, boosts yields

By Ron Burtz on Wednesday, September 27, 2023

EF Polymer is made from discarded orange, banana peels

  • Kuni Shimoji, COO of Japan-based EF Polymer, shows off his product at the company’s booth at this year’s Husker Harvest Days. The product made from discarded orange and banana peelings promises to hold moisture in the soil and boost yields.
    Kuni Shimoji, COO of Japan-based EF Polymer, shows off his product at the company’s booth at this year’s Husker Harvest Days. The product made from discarded orange and banana peelings promises to hold moisture in the soil and boost yields.

    It’s amazing what kind of new agricultural innovations one can discover just by wandering around the vast Husker Harvest Days complex situated in the midst of cornfields along Husker Highway west of Grand Island. That was the experience of this reporter, however, while checking out the exhibit booths in one of the buildings on the final day of this year’s event, Sept. 14. There among the boot…