Mill wastewater and olive pomace compost as amendments 
for rye-grass

Montemurro, Francesco; Convertini, G.; Donato, Francesco

doi:10.1051/agro:2004044

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“…This result was mainly due to both high crop residue at the end of the sunflower cycle (in all treatments) and the organic carbon of the municipal solid waste compost (for Ncompost), in agreement with Montemurro et al (2004). Furthermore, although with no significant increase, the extracted organic carbon showed a similar trend to the total carbon (0.70, 0.46 and 1.18 g kg -1 an increase for Control, Nmineral and Ncompost, respectively), whereas humified organic carbon decreased uniformly in the treatments tested.…”

Section: Soil Characteristics and N Mineral Deficitsupporting

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Improvement of soil properties and nitrogen utilisation of sunflower by amending municipal solid waste compost

Montemurro

Maiorana

Convertini

et al. 2005

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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-We studied the effects of municipal solid waste compost applied to soil on sunflower nitrogen (N) uptake, N utilisation, yield, soil mineral N deficit and soil characteristics. One unfertilised control was compared with the optimal N dose for the sunflower crops in the test area (100 kg N ha -1 ) supplied as: organic fertilisation, with municipal solid waste compost; mineral fertilisation, with ammonium nitrate; and mixed fertilisation, with 50 kg N ha -1 from compost and 50 kg N ha -1 from mineral nitrogen. The results obtained showed that the compost, at the end of the experiment, modified the soil chemical properties. In particular, it significantly improved available phosphorus (111.3% increase for compost treatment in respect to 57.6% for the control), maintained almost the same level of exchangeable potassium (6.0% reduction for compost treatment in respect to 9.8% for the control), and significantly enhanced total soil organic matter (50.0% vs. 32.1%) and extracted organic carbon (16.6% vs. 11.8%). In addition, the application of this material did not increase the total content of heavy metals. The results showed that the municipal waste compost did not modify N uptake, utilisation, or efficiency of sunflower plants. The mean value of N uptake during the vegetative stage was 60.9%, while postanthesis N uptake reached only 39.1% and was positively and significantly correlated with yields and total N uptake, showing that the late N absorption could influence yield performance of sunflower cropped in Mediterranean conditions. Furthermore, the compost, alone or in association with mineral fertiliser, allowed similar yield performance as mineral fertilisation in oil yield (1.51, 1.48 and 1.58 t ha -1 , for the three treatments, respectively) and protein yield (0.66, 0.64 and 0.65 t ha -1 , respectively).sunflower / municipal solid waste / soil properties / nitrogen uptake and utilisation / mineral N deficit / yield

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confidence: 85%

Improvement of soil properties and nitrogen utilisation of sunflower by amending municipal solid waste compost

Montemurro

Maiorana

Convertini

et al. 2005

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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“…Wastes, generally, have high levels of organic matter and nutrients, and its agricultural use can contribute to close ecologic natural cycles (Montemurro et al 2004;Montemurro and Maiorana 2008). Vermicomposting, a tool for manure management can be employed as a means for manure treatment with the aim of enhancing nutritive value of forage (Aminu et al 2012).…”

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Effects of the onion residue compost as an organic fertilizer in a vegetable culture in the Lower Valley of the Rio Negro

Pellejero

Miglierina

Aschkar

et al. 2017

Int J Recycl Org Waste Agricult

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Purpose Farming production in the lower part of Río Negro Valley (Argentina) has increased considerably during recent years, causing soil degradation and, specifically, decreasing the organic matter contents. This fact requires recovery measures, as organic amendments for soils, to improve its quality. The marked objectives for the present research is to evaluate compost as organic fertilizer, based on a mix of onion waste and bovine manure. Methods The experiment was carried out in a completely randomized design, involving five treatments and one control, with ten copies of each one. Tests were performed in a greenhouse, using flowerpots and experimental plots, in a typical soil of the region (Aridisol), pH 8.3 and 2.2% of organic matter, mixed with different compost dosages (20, 40, ) and the chemical treatment, Urea (0.26 Mg ha -1 ). A horticultural farming of 1 lettuce was sowed (Lactuca sativa). A conventional handling was carried out for the whole cultivation period, and at the end was harvested. Ten plants per plot were taken and were determined total fresh weight, aerial part fresh weight, root part fresh eight. In the dry controls total dry weight, aerial dry weight and root dry weight was determined. Results Results show, with an error (p \ 0.05), significant differences in the fresh weight per plant calculated, between treatments and control; a noticeably greater effect can be observed in the treatments with 6 and 8 kg m -2 compost amending and urea treatment. There is no evidence of the existence of significant differences (p \ 0.05) between treatments and control, according to the values obtained for root size as well as aerial dry weight and root dry matter. Conclusions It can be concluded that the addition of organic fertilizer to soils, has positive effect on the Fresh weight of the plant, recommending the use of doses of 6 kg m -2 while the dose of 8 kg m -2 could replace the use of chemical fertilizers such as Urea.

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“…The soil application of mineral or organic fertilisers, and in particular phosphorus (P), has been shown to significantly increase alfalfa yield (Malhi et al, 2001). The use of organic fertiliser to provide P for plant growth has long been of interest, especially in Mediterranean conditions in which the mineralization process is great because of high temperatures, which means the soil needs more organic matter (Montemurro et al, 2004). Moreover, growing concerns relating to land degradation, the inappropriate use of inorganic fertilisers, atmospheric pollution, soil fertility and biodiversity have rekindled global interest in organic recycling practices.…”

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“…In this matter, composting Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), which represents a possible alternative to incineration for recycling organic material, has recently been studied as a soil amendment or as an organic fertiliser in different crops (Montemurro et al, 2005). Also the utilisation of agro-industrial residues increased and, among these, the olive pomace (OP, residue of pressed olives) is very interesting because it arranges the recycling of organic substances with both soil and plant benefits (Montemurro et al, 2004). Few studies have addressed the impact of herbage fertilisation on ruminant nutrition.…”

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Effects of compost organic amendments on chemical composition andin vitrodigestibility of alfalfa (Medicago sativaL.)

Lestingi¹,

Bovera²,

Piccolo³

et al. 2009

Italian Journal of Animal Science

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the following fertiliser treatments were compared during the years 2002 and 2003 on alfalfa forage (Medicago sativa L.): compost obtained from the organic fraction of the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW); olive pomace compost (OPC); mineral fertiliser (Min). All the treatments allowed a distribution of 75kg ha -1 of P 2 O 5 . three cuttings occurred: at 168, 206 and 351 days after compost application (DAA) in 2002; 119, 152 and 320 DAA in 2003. Cumulative biomass and dry matter yields were measured during each experimental year. Furthermore, chemical composition and in vitro digestibility of dry matter (DMd), organic matter (OMd), crude protein (CPd) and NDF (NDFd) were determined. MSW treatment showed a significantly (P<0.01) higher content of ADL than OPC and Min (77.0, 66.0 and 65.0g kg -1 DM, respectively). Fertiliser treatments also affected (P<0.01) digestibility parameters. In fact, DMd and OMd values showed the same trend with lower percentages in MSW treatment than in the OPC and Min ones. the NDFd differed in all treatments having the highest value in OPC (40.1%). the results indicated that the soil distribution of organic materials offer the possibility to reduce the application of mineral fertilisers and production costs without decreasing alfalfa yield, forage chemical composition and in vitro digestibility.

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Mill wastewater and olive pomace compost as amendments for rye-grass

Cited by 75 publications

References 10 publications

Improvement of soil properties and nitrogen utilisation of sunflower by amending municipal solid waste compost

Improvement of soil properties and nitrogen utilisation of sunflower by amending municipal solid waste compost

Effects of the onion residue compost as an organic fertilizer in a vegetable culture in the Lower Valley of the Rio Negro

Effects of compost organic amendments on chemical composition andin vitrodigestibility of alfalfa (Medicago sativaL.)

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