agriculture composting Articles
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Effects of biowaste compost on vegetative growth, Yield and fruit quality of james grieve apples
In Lower Austria 69 agricultural composting plants are in operation in addition to municipal and commercial composting plants. The agricultural composting plants process separately collected organic household waste as contractual partners for the neighbouring municipalities. The compost produced is used to a large extent on the agricultural fields of the plants' owners. In order to improve the ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Green America: Tackling Soil, Sanitation, and Beyond in Haiti
For a recently published feature about SOIL’s lifesaving sanitation service, Kevin Fitzpatrick of Green America interviewed SOIL Executive Director and Co-Founder Dr. Sasha Kramer about what led her to co-found SOIL, the connection between sanitation and agriculture, and the innovation behind SOIL’s revolutionary composting waste treatment facility. SOIL’s solution ...
By SOIL Haiti
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Model-based investigations into long-term compost application effects on nitrate leaching at different agricultural sites
Organic waste materials may beneficially be used for fertilisation as well as for soil improvement on agricultural sites after composting and subsequent application. If compost is continuously applied at an annual scale of app. 10 Mg dry matter/ha, the content of organic matter in the soil will increase in the long-term, as shown in a field trial in Neu-Eichenberg, conducted 1985-97 by Univ. of ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Measurement of Total Carbon in Soil and Compost by TOC Solid Sample Measurement System
Soil contains a large amount of organic matter such as plant residue that can be decomposed by microorganisms. This organic matter plays a key role in plant growth by maintaining good chemical and physical conditions in soil and is useful in improving and stabilizing the productivity of agricultural crops. Compost, a type of fertilizer in which organic matter is decomposed by microorganisms, ...
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Priming of prosopis cineraria (L.) druce and acacia tortilis (forssk) seeds with fulvic acid extracted from compost to improve germination and seedlin
Composting of waste plant materials and its use in agriculture and landscape sites is an environmental friendly way of reducing waste material and conserving the environment. In this perspectives a survey has been performed at the Dubai based International Center for Biosaline Agriculture to compost the plants based waste material (lawn cuttings-grass) to compost. The material was inoculated with ...
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Composting of vegetable waste in subtropical climates
This experiment examined the possibility of using composting as a method of waste disposal in subtropical countries, such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where temperatures are high and humidity is low. In order to simulate conditions in the UAE, a representative mixture of wastes generated in the UAE was prepared and tested at ambient temperatures resembling those of subtropical countries. ...
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Microbial biomass c and ninhydrin-reactive n as Parameters to characterize composting process
The use of compost in agriculture is increasing as a source of organic matter to counteract the decrease of organic matter level in soils and as a means of disposal of agricultural and domestic waste. Despite many researches on the subject, there is still the need to improve our knowledge on the compost process and on the methods to evaluate compost maturity. The composting of organic waste has ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Compost stability: a comparative evaluation of respirometric techniques
The new Paradigm in waste management promotes attitudes and processes that conserve resources and reduce pollution. Under this philosophy, organic waste is increasingly recognised as a recyclable material, a useful resource, making composting one of the key elements of modern waste management. As the composting industry is expanding rapidly there is a growing need for a simple, fast, relatively ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Restoring Long Term Soil Health in Haiti with Organic Compost
Last summer, we shared results from a research project that was taken on by master’s students at Cranfield University. The students compared the efficiency of SOIL’s organic compost, Konpòs Lakay, to commercial grade chemical fertilizers available on the market. This comparison was used two core Haitian crops: tomato plants and moringa trees. When the preliminary results ...
By SOIL Haiti
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