The Pot'onggang Organic Compound Fertiliser Factory( ko, 보통강유기질복합비료공장), located in Chŏngpy'ŏng-dong, P'yŏngch'ŏn-guyŏk, P'yŏngyang,

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...

, was opened in 2012 to produce organic fertiliser making use of sediments and fly ash from an adjacent

sewage treatment plant Sewage treatment (or domestic wastewater treatment, municipal wastewater treatment) is a type of wastewater treatment which aims to remove contaminants from sewage to produce an effluent that is suitable for discharge to the surrounding en ...

and sludge from the

Pot'ong River The Pothong River (Pot'ong River, Potonggang or Potong) is a river in North Korea. It flows through the capital Pyongyang and is a tributary of the Taedong River The Taedong River (Chosŏn'gŭl: ) is a large river in North Korea. The river r ...

. It is served by

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via the P'yŏngnam Line of the

Korean State Railway The Korean State Railway (), commonly called the State Rail () is the operating arm of the Ministry of Railways of North Korea and has its headquarters at Pyongyang, P'yŏngyang. The current Minister of Railways is Chang Jun Song. History ...

References

{{reflist Fertilizer companies of North Korea