Appropriate Technologies, Hamzah Style
Living in a remote region with long droughts challenged Hamzah to create Emitter and Functional Food. The two technologies have helped the lives of people in the far-flung areas of West Nusa Tenggara.
September 29, 2010
THE September sun is scorching. The dry season is reaching its peak. But the trees in the plantation and yard of Ida Bagus Putu Suwatha, a resident of Sigerongan village, Lingsar district, West Lombok regency, in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) province are verdant green, flourishing and vigorous.
It turns out that an object is stuck to every tree in the plantation: a used plastic mineral water bottle, painted silver, has a tube in the lower side that
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