San Jose, Batangas, where Nadine’s Marketing is located, is known for its main industry – agriculture, specifically, poultry and other related livelihood. As a manufacturer of organic fertilizer, Nadine’s Marketing has helped to boost the community’s income generation. With it, a number of workers have been hired to do the manufacturing, as well as administrative work.

Not only has Nadine’s Marketing propelled economic growth, but it has also helped ameliorate our environment. Unlike commercial chemical fertilizers, organic fertilizers significantly lessen the acidity of the soil, while at the same time boosting yield. Another disadvantage of chemical fertilizers is that they threaten our health and well-being. Many chemical fertilizers cannot just be washed off with water. They penetrate and become part of the food we eat.

Meanwhile, unlike unprocessed chicken dung, processed chicken dung that is utilized in Greenland Organic Fertilizer (GOF) is beneficial to crops. One, the crop experiences partial nutrient “starvation” since the nutrients from the raw chicken dung are not yet available until it is totally decomposed. Initial growth of the plants, therefore, is hampered. Two, harmful microorganisms and toxins in the raw chicken dung may also be detrimental to the crop unless these are killed and decomposed by beneficial microorganisms during the process of decomposition. Moreover, microorganisms in the soil may not be able to neutralize the toxins in the raw chicken dung.

Possibly, there might still be apprehensions regarding water pollution brought about by the poultries located in San Jose, Batangas. As what happened some years ago, chicken dung from the poultries flowed to the creeks beside the poultries. However, this is now avoided since Nadine’s Marketing has started hauling the chicken dung from the poultries and processing the dung as organic fertilizer.