Effect of Distillery Raw Spentwash on Soil Microbial Properties and Yield of Paddy in a Sodic Vertisol

Performance of Paddy and Characteristics of a Black Alkali Soils as Affected by Gypsum and Spent Wash with Organic Materials

“…The decrease in ESP of post harvest soil due to the replacement of Na + by Ca 2+ during decomposition of spent wash must have led to the reduction in soil ESP. The findings are in close agreement of those reported by Kumar et al, (2017). Those it can be concluded that the increasing the growth and yield of paddy as well as in the amelioration of black alkali soil more uptake of N, P, K, Ca and Mg and decrease in Na uptake conforms the amelioration of soil.…”

“…The increase possibly due to the presence of high organic matter present in spent wash and lagoon sludge. Similar effects of spent wash application on microbial population of soil were also reported by Deshpande et al, (2012), Goli and Sahu (2014) and Kumar et al, (2017).…”