Influence of municipal compost on temperature, water, nutrient status and the yield of maize in a temperate soil

Naeini, S. A. R. Movahedi; Cook, Hadrian

doi:10.1111/j.1475-2743.2000.tb00196.x

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“…Bationo et al (1993) had earlier reported similar significant millet yield responses in the second year of crop residue application. The probable explanation of the residual effect of mulching to the following year could be the enhanced supply of nutrients and water through nutrient recycling, wind-blown dust trapping, and reduced evaporation (Movahedi Naeni and Cook 2000;Ram et al 2003;Schlecht et al 2006). This residual effect may also explain the significant interaction between mulch and year on yields (Table 3).…”

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Integrated use of fertilizer micro-dosing and Acacia tumida mulching increases millet yield and water use efficiency in Sahelian semi-arid environment

Ibrahim

Abaidoo

Fatondji

et al. 2015

Nutr Cycl Agroecosyst

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Limited availability of soil organic amendments and unpredictable rainfall, decrease crop yields drastically in the Sahel. There is, therefore, a need to develop an improved technology for conserving soil moisture and enhancing crop yields in the Sahelian semi-arid environment. A 2-year field experiment was conducted to investigate the mulching effects of Acacia tumida pruning relative to commonly applied organic materials in Niger on millet growth, yields and water use efficiency (WUE) under fertilizer micro-dosing technology. We hypothesized that (1) A. tumida pruning is a suitable mulching alternative for crop residues in the biomass-scarce areas of Niger and (2) combined application of A. tumida mulch and fertilizer micro-dosing increases millet yield and water use efficiency. Two fertilizer micro-dosing options (20 kg DAP ha -1 , 60 kg NPK ha -1 ) and three types of organic mulches (millet straw, A. tumida mulch, and manure) and the relevant control treatments were arranged in factorial experiment organized in a randomized complete block design with four replications. Fertilizer micro-dosing increased millet grain yield on average by 28 %. This millet grain yield increased further by 37 % with combined application of fertilizer micro-dosing and organic mulch. Grain yield increases relative to the unmulched control were 51 % for manure, 46 % for A. tumida mulch and 36 % for millet mulch. Leaf area index and root length density were also greater under mulched plots. Fertilizer micro-dosing increased WUE of millet on average by 24 %, while the addition of A. tumida pruning, manure and millet increased WUE on average 55, 49 and 25 %, respectively. We conclude that combined application of micro-dosing and organic mulch is an effective fertilization strategy to enhance millet yield and water use efficiency in low-input cropping systems and that A. tumida pruning could serve as an appropriate mulching alternative for further increasing crop yields and water use efficiency in the biomass-scarce and drought prone environment such as the Sahel. However, the economic and social implications and the long-term agronomic effects of this agroforestry tree in Sahelian millet based system have to be explored further.Keywords Organic mulch Á Fertilizer micro-dosing Á Acacia tumida Á Millet yield Á Water use efficiency

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Integrated use of fertilizer micro-dosing and Acacia tumida mulching increases millet yield and water use efficiency in Sahelian semi-arid environment

Ibrahim

Abaidoo

Fatondji

et al. 2015

Nutr Cycl Agroecosyst

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“…Despite the fact that manure is rich in readily available C, N and other macro-and micro-nutrients that microorganisms require for their growth and activities (Feikea et al, 2009;Gupta et al, 1992), there are also various effects of manure that microbes can profit from. For instance, manure application can maintain soil moisture and ease rapid changes in soil temperature (Naeini and Cook, 2000), which helps to provide a stable environment for soil microbes to growth.…”

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Changes in soil microbial biomass with manure application in cropping systems: A meta-analysis

Ren

Sun

Meng

et al. 2019

Soil and Tillage Research

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“…Incorporating organic matter [10][11][12], nutrients and electrolytes into the soil [13]; reducing the need for fertilizers [14], pesticides and peat use [15], activating a wide ranges of natural disease suppressiveness mechanisms against plants pathogens and bio stimulation able to improve the overall plant status [16]; improving soil structure, density and porosity [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25], which increase water retention capacity and reduce erosion and nutrient leaching [20,26]; and enhancing carbon storage capacity in the soil, thus, reducing global warming [24,27,28].…”

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Sustainability Assessment of the Green Compost Production Chain from Agricultural Waste: A Case Study in Southern Italy

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Horticultural farms are faced with the problem of disposing of huge amounts of agricultural by-products whose management requires sustainable solutions. Composting means to recycle organic waste to make compost—a high agronomic value product—able to positively affect soil quality: A good occasion to switch definitively from a conventional agriculture to an organic one. Nevertheless, composting can have negative direct/indirect environmental impacts. The aim of this research was to assess the sustainability of a windrow composting system, able to treat agricultural green waste of different typology (“light” and “heavy” with dry matter below or above 10%, respectively). Environmental impacts, energy consumptions, and production costs of all composting stages were evaluated by Life Cycle Assessment. Results show that the production of 1 ton of compost caused CO2eq emissions ranging from 199 to 250 kg and required between 1500 and 2000 MJ of energy; costs ranged between 98 and 162 euro, nevertheless lesser than the commercial green compost. The raw material typology affected significantly the composting process making compost based on “heavy” materials the most sustainable. These findings underline the need to spread this low technology process, easy to apply, especially in organic farms, and to promote the agronomic use of compost.

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Influence of municipal compost on temperature, water, nutrient status and the yield of maize in a temperate soil

Cited by 43 publications

References 13 publications

Integrated use of fertilizer micro-dosing and Acacia tumida mulching increases millet yield and water use efficiency in Sahelian semi-arid environment

Integrated use of fertilizer micro-dosing and Acacia tumida mulching increases millet yield and water use efficiency in Sahelian semi-arid environment

Changes in soil microbial biomass with manure application in cropping systems: A meta-analysis

Sustainability Assessment of the Green Compost Production Chain from Agricultural Waste: A Case Study in Southern Italy

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