Plant quality and soil residual fertility six years after a compost treatment

Allievi, L.; Marchesini, A.; Salardi, C.; Piano, V.; Ferrari, Anderson Claiton

doi:10.1016/0960-8524(93)90088-s

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“…This practice is recommended, as soil fertility needs more than ever to be sustained. Food demand is increasing rapidly in non-OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries, and it is in those countries particularly where organic waste needs to be diverted from landfill sites to composting practices, so compost can enhance soil fertility [4]. In OECD countries, where composting of organic waste is already established, its use as a landfill cover to abate greenhouse gas emissions has shown to be promising [5].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy from Waste: Reuse of Compost Heat as a Source of Renewable Energy

Irvine

Lamont

Antízar-Ladislao

2010

International Journal of Chemical Engineering

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An in-vessel tunnel composting facility in Scotland was used to investigate the potential for collection and reuse of compost heat as a source of renewable energy. The amount of energy offered by the compost was calculated and seasonal variations analysed. A heat exchanger was designed in order to collect and transfer the heat. This allowed heated water of 47.3 o C to be obtained. The temperature could be further increased to above 60 o C by passing it through multiple tunnels in series. Estimated costs for installing and running the system were calculated. In order to analyse these costs alternative solar thermal and ground source heat pump systems were also designed. The levels of supply and economic performance were then compared. A capital cost of £11,662 and operating cost of £1,039 per year were estimated, resulting in a cost of £0.50 per kWh for domestic water and £0.10 per kWh for spatial heat. Using the heat of the compost was found to provide the most reliable level of supply at a similar price to its rivals.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy from Waste: Reuse of Compost Heat as a Source of Renewable Energy

Irvine

Lamont

Antízar-Ladislao

2010

International Journal of Chemical Engineering

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“…The use of such composts increased the productivity of many crop cultures by as high as 20-30% [9,[12][13][14][15][16].…”

Section: Intensification Of Composting Processes By Aerobicmentioning

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10.1007/s10438-008-1002-6

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“…It is known that nutrient availability for the plants from organic sources take comparatively longer time than inorganic ones (Hug and Silva 2000). It has been shown by Allievi et al (1993) that annual availability of N, P, and K from the compost was taken to be equal to one third of the total N, P, and K contents (Allievi et al 1993). Based on this during first year only 40-50% of nutrients were available for the tomato plants in our treatments.…”

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“…In Nepal, organic manure could be a good option not only for the rural farmer, but also for other road head farmers as it saves investment, time, promotes local knowledge, use of local materials and increase production through increasing soil fertility. The use of quality compost can improve the physical, chemical, biological properties of soil and results improve the soil fertility even after several years, a constant quantitative improvement in crop production as well as in product quality (Allievi et al 1993).…”

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Performance of Tomato with Organic Manures in Plastic Tunnel

Shrestha

Ojha

Pradhan

et al. 2018

J. Nep. Agric. Res. Counc.

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Tomato is one of the most demanded vegetable with increasing trend of commercial cultivation in Nepal. As it is the heavy feeder crop thus soil nutrient management has been always challenging. Since, in modern world organic production has been favored by consumers for many reasons thus we aimed to compare the efficacy of various compost, mineral fertilizers and their combinations in tomato production and soil productivity. For the purpose a field experiment in plastic tunnel was carried out in Horticulture Research Division, Khumaltar in two consecutive years (2014 and 2015). Srijana, a popular tomato hybrid among commercial producers, was purposively selected. Eight treatments (control, recommended doses of chemical fertilizers, compost 15 t ha -1 + cattle urine, compost 10 t ha -1 + cattle urine, compost 12.5 t ha -1 + cattle urine, compost 15 t ha -1 + 1/4 recommended dose of chemical fertilizers, compost 10 t ha -1 + ¾ recommended dose of chemical fertilizer and compost 12.5 t ha -1 + 1/2 recommended dose of chemical fertilizer) were laid out in randomized complete block design and replicated thrice. The result showed significant (p < 0.05) positive correlation between the plant height and yield of tomato. The treatment with compost dose of 12.5 t ha -1 with half dose of recommended dose of chemical fertilizers produced the highest incremental yield (85% increment) over other treatments followed by compost 15 t ha -1 with cattle urine. Addition of soil organic carbon, soil nitrogen, soil potassium by the increasing level of compost though not significant, but increment in carbon content, nitrogen content and potassium content of soil observed in successive years. For commercial producer at plastic tunnel, compost at the rate 12.

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Plant quality and soil residual fertility six years after a compost treatment

Cited by 33 publications

References 5 publications

Energy from Waste: Reuse of Compost Heat as a Source of Renewable Energy

Energy from Waste: Reuse of Compost Heat as a Source of Renewable Energy

10.1007/s10438-008-1002-6

Performance of Tomato with Organic Manures in Plastic Tunnel

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