Comparison of crop production efficiency of compost leachate with chemical fertilizer and evaluating its effect on germination and growth of wheat crop

Abstract

Increasing public concern in relation to health and environmental issues of organic waste leads to many solutions of waste management. Many different methods are discovered for proper waste management and disposal. Organic fractions of solid waste are treated with aerobic composting. It is one of the better treatments for organic waste. The important issue of concern here is the production of compost leachate with organic waste. In this study, to evaluate the competency of produced leachate as fertilizer and making the composting process more cost effective and environmentally friendly, liquid fertilizer prepared by Lahore Compost Company was used. Different percentages of leachate (0.2, 0.5, 1.5, 3.5, 5.5, 10.5, 15.5, and 25.5%) were prepared and germination rate of wheat was checked by evaluating its fertilizing quality compared to fertilizer. Results showed high germination and growth rate at lower concentration of leachate as compared with control and commercial fertilizer due to the presence of many suitable nutrients. This study was designed to compare the crop production efficiency of compost leachate with commercial fertilizer. It was revealed in this study that low leachate percentage give better crop production in case of wheat.

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“…Many emerging organic wastes have been successfully converted into nutrient-rich composts (Ferrentino et al 2020;Kujawa et al 2020). In view of this, co-composting can be addressed as a sustainable management option for the sewage sludge by virtue of its circular economic approach, because it is simultaneously satisfying the nutrient requirements for the crop growth as well as minimizing the waste handling problems (Minamiyama et al 2008;Abbasi et al 2019;Ayesha 2020).From the agricultural point of view, the most implicating factors of compost amendment on the soil would be the soil moisture retention capacity, in ltration rate and nutrient sequestration effect (Adugna 2016;Abbasi et al 2019;Ai et al 2020). The recirculation of the leachate component during co-composting is also found to provide added advantages such as maintaining the essential nutrients ratio and reducing the issues of seepage and foul odour (…”