An Introduction

Dr. Teruo Higa, a Japanese professor of agriculture, developed EM - short for "Effective Micro-organisms" - in the nineteen-seventies and published his results in 1982. In 1989 EM was made public on an international level, and is now being used in more than 120 countries. In India, it is being manufactured since 2000.

AuroAnnam has been in contact with EM from 1998 onwards and been using it from 1999 onwards. Since EM is produced in India, AuroAnnam has been a trader of the product and a promoter of the technology.

EM is a liquid culture of aerobic and anaerobic micro-organisms mainly sourced from human food processing and from nature. It consists of lactobacilli, yeast, photosynthetic bacteria, ray fungi and filamentous fungi. It does not contain any genetically modified organisms, is safe and easy to handle, and harmless to human health even if accidentally ingested. EM offers benefits in the following fields of activities: farming, animal husbandry and care, aquaculture, solid waste management, sewage and effluent treatment, hazardous waste treatment, hygiene management, and environmental regeneration.

The potential users of EM and EM technology are:
Farmers, gardeners, plantation managers, and nurseries (increase in yields, improvement of quality and shelf life, soil fertility management and pest control);
management of animal husbandry (cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, poultry), holders of domestic animals, breeders and owners of horses, zoos, veterinary clinics;
management of fish and of shrimp farms;
industries of all scales and any production (food processing, chemical and pharmaceutical, textile and textile dying, tanneries etc.),
hotels, hospitals, schools and institutions (kitchen waste management, effluent treatment, cooling system, hygiene management),
any housewife and householder for management of hygiene (floors, bathrooms and toilets, shelves and cupboards), pest control, laundry, kitchen waste processing and recycling;
owners of garden pools or swimming pools;
municipalities, corporations, and authorities in charge of solid waste and dumpsite management;
environmentalists working for lake rehabilitation, breakdown of toxic residues, regeneration of soils and wasteland, also of sodic-saline soils.

EM stock solution and activated or extended EM solution

EM in agriculture

EM for animal husbandry

Links: EMRO, APNAN, EM Tech

For more information on EM preparations and their uses, please consult Dr. Lucas Dengel