The Effect of Food Waste Compost on Chinese Cabbage (Brassica rapa var. glabra) and Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Growth

Abstract

Composting of food waste might be effective way for food waste disposal which could be applied to improve soil properties in agricultural field. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of food waste on two crops (Chinese cabbage, Tomato) compared to livestock manure. Seven different treatments (one livestock manure, two food wastes, one livestock manure + chemical fertilizer, two food waste + chemical fertilizer, and control) were applied to two crops . Treatment of livestock + chemical fertilizer and microorganism treated food waste +chemical fertilizer showed statistically significant differences on leaf width and root length of Chinese cabbage compared to other treatments. They showed highest values for these parameters. Value of four parameters (shoot length, total length, fresh weight and chlorophyll content) were highest with treatment of livestock + chemical fertilizer and microorganism treated food waste + chemical fertilizer for tomato growth.

Primary Metabolomic Changes in Rice Plants Grown under Different Levels of Food Waste-Livestock Manure Compost

“…The remarkable increase in tiller by higher nitrogen input significantly produced the reproductive tillers, which affect the number of panicles. The greater input, a critical point to avoid crop damage, of FW-LMC-based fertilization significantly promoted biomass production in rice (Cho et al, 2021), red pepper (Kim et al, 2020) and Chinese cabbage (Kim et al, 2018(Kim et al, , 2021 although greater and longer input could lead to the enhancement of soil EC to cause unfavorable crop production (Yoo et al, 2018;Kim et al, 2019Kim et al, , 2021Lee et al, 2019). Therefore, the current result provides a possibility that higher input of nitrogen source, especially an organic resource such as FW-LMC, in rice cultivation system could markedly enhance the vegetative growth as well as the reproductive production.…”

“…However, higher NaCl in food wastes was proposed as a problem to lead to salt stress of crops and the contamination of soil and ground water (Gerber et al, 2005). Therefore, many studies have tried to identify the customized application rates as well as the effect of crop production from economic crops including rice (Lee et al, 2016;Cho et al, 2021), pepper (Lee et al, 2016), cucumber, tomato (Yoo et al, 2018), Chinese cabbage (Yoo et al, 2018;Kim et al, 2021) and orchardgrass (Cho et al, 2000).…”

Evaluation of the Crop Yield and Nutrient Balance by Application of Liquid Manure in Paddy Soil

“…이는 퇴비 시용구에서의 지속적인 퇴비 시용에 의한 토양질 개선 및 유기물 함량 증가가 그 원인으 로 평가되고 있으며, 무기질 비료 시용구의 유기물 함량은 점차 감소하는 경향을 보였다. 또한, 밭토양에서 가축분 퇴 비, 풋거름 작물과 같은 유기물의 장기시용은 토양내 유기물 함량을 증가시켰으며, 이로 인해 호밀, 옥수수의 생산량 을 증가시키는 것으로 보고되었으며 (Wei et al, 2016;Cho et al, 2018;Wang et al, 2019), 음식물 쓰레기를 이용한 유기물 자원의 투입 또한 배추와 토마토의 생육을 증가시키는 것으로 보고되었다 (Yoo et al, 2018) 따라서 지속적인 유기물의 투입은 토양질을 개선하며 토양 내 유기물 함량을 증가시켜 관행재배와 비교하여 작물 생산성의 증가 또는 유지를 기대할 수 있다. 투입가능한 유기물 자원으로는 가축분 퇴비가 가장 널리 이용되고 있으나, 낮은 N/P 비율로 인하여 지속적으로 시용할 시 농경지 인산집적을 심화시킬 수 있다 (Iqbal et al, 2015).…”

Short-term Effects of Food Waste Compost on Soil Properties and Chinese Cabbage Growth in Upland Soil

“…------cmolc kg -1 ------------mg kg -1 ------5.9 0.1 7.0 95 0.1 2.9 0.5 12.0 18.9 가 증가한다고 보고하고 있다. EC는 퇴비의 염류 함량으로 인해 토양 EC가 증가하며 (Yoo et al, 2018;Kim et al, 2019;Lee et al, 2019) 사용량이 증가할수록 비례하여 증가한다고 알려져 있다 (Hwang et al, 2002). 토양의 유기물 함량은 무기질비료에 비해 퇴비사용이 유기물 공급효과가 뚜렷하다고 알려져 있으며 음식물쓰레기 퇴비 또한 마찬가 지로 공급효과가 높은 것으로 확인되었다 (Kwon et al, 2009)…”