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Biofertilizer company to build $10 million facility in Indiana

A Philadelphia-based liquid biofertilizer company is expanding operations to Bluffton, Indiana.

EnviroKure is investing $10 million in an 80,000 square-foot facility that will use chicken manure to create biofertilizers for conventional, organic, and hydroponic use.

Sonia Nofziger Dasgupta is vice president of commercial strategy.

“It will produce over 8 million gallons of our product and that should be up and ready by the end of next year so that we will be sending out product for the 2020 growing season,” she says.

She tells Brownfield the biofertilizers will help farmers improve productivity by improving soil health.

“It allows the plant to really take what it needs and leave what it doesn’t without hurting the plant, so we’re building the soil as well as building the plant,” she says.

Dasgupta, who is from Indiana, says the move is a homecoming of sorts.

“The Indiana Agbioscience community is very very welcoming and supportive of the development of technology,” she says.

Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb says EnviroKure has already been a great partner to Indiana as the company joined an agbiosciences delegation on an economic development trip to Israel this year.

Audio: Sonia Nofziger Dasgupta, VP of Commercial Strategy for EnviroKure