humus Articles
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Fabricated soils for landscape restoration: an example for scientific contribution by a public-private partnership effort
Public-private partnership efforts are working towards creating green landscapes from abandoned industrial sites. Fabricated soils, potentially an essential element of such landscapes, are designed to substitute for top-soil on the areas free from ground cover and plant community. The aluminosilicate matrix and humus form the soil micelle the primary unit of any soil complex. Humus formation is a ...
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Humic Acid Factory - Case Study
Humic acids or humus are black or dark brown substances formed by plant or animal residues that are partially or completely decayed. Humus is a substance that facilitates the uptake of fertilizers. Today, the increasing use of chemical fertilizers causes the humus in our land to be rapidly depleted. In order to solve this problem, more and more humic substances (humic acid and fulvic acid) are ...
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Vermicomposting of mustard residue and effect of its application on soil and plant nutrients status
Vermicomposting of mustard (Brassica juncea) residue with pretreatments of submergence in water, nutrients (urea and low grade rock phosphate) supplementation, microbial (Bacillus sp., Trichoderma viride and Cellulomonas fimi) inoculation and their combined use with fresh cow dung/slurry improved the quality of vermicomposts with respect to C/N ratio, yield, humus fractions and nutrients content. ...
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Six effects of organic matter on maintaining soil fertility
The content of soil organic matter is closely related to the level of soil fertility. Although organic matter only accounts for a small part of the total amount of soil, it plays a significant role in maintaining soil fertility. The manufacturer of organic fertilizer production equipment introduces six important functions of organic matter to maintain soil fertility. 1. Provide nutrition for ...
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Earthworms helping economy, improving ecology and protecting health
Earthworms can treat organic garbage, livestock manure and poultry droppings and turn them into premium organic fertilisers, because humus only exists in earthworm feces and castings, compared with other fertilisers. Earthworms can also supply quality animal protein as feed, and offer the best raw materials for the biochemical and pharmaceutical industries. Vermiculture should be put into a whole ...
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Estimating forest soil Carbon and Nitrogen stocks with double sampling for stratification
Precise and accurate estimation of C and N in forest soils is important for monitoring long-term site productivity and C stock changes. Obtaining such estimates remains a major challenge, however, especially because of high natural variability in the forest floor. Although most researchers have used simple random sampling (SRS) for within-plot soil sampling, double sampling for stratification ...
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Application of two vermicomposts on a Rice crop: Effects on soil biological properties and rice quality and yield
Vermicomposts have been considered as a soil additive to reduce the use of mineral fertilizers because they provide required nutrients, increase cation exchange capacity, and improve water-holding capacity. However, the effect of each vermicompost on soil properties and crop yield depends on its chemical composition. The main objective of this work was to study the effect of incorporating two ...
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Root feeding of plants in the conditions of No-Till technology
About 6.5 million hectares of agricultural land in Ukraine are either degraded or unproductive. Above mentioned data are provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. According to the opinion of other experts, impoverished soils occupy much bigger area and consist about 15 million hectares. The decrease in the amount of humus and the general deterioration of land is ...
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Introduction of composted digestates in agriculture
Municipal organic waste is increasingly recycled by aerobic composting or anaerobic digestion procedures. In 1997, 230 000 Mg organic waste were composted and used for agriculture in the region of Cologne, which is an increase by 70% compared to 1994 (Anonymous, 1999). Therefore, the effects of compost on the soil and the plants require studies on:- its nutrient contents to contribute to the ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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Development of Waste Sawdust as a plant protection material for horticulture and agriculture
Untitled Document Lignin is one of the major wastes of modern society, in the form of wood waste such as sawdust. In nature, lignin is slowly digested to soil humus. This project is to ascertain whether sawdust could be digested into a plant protection material. The value of this would be that it would control some pests and diseases without being a pesticide nor fertilizer. ...
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Principles for market-orientated production of compost products from the perspective of a plant operator
The treatment of biological waste, and composting in particular, has received a great boost in recent years since the introduction of source separation for biological waste in the 1980s. At the same time, legal regulations and guidelines for the construction of composting plants, production and trading of compost products were expanded. At present, about 6.5 million tonnes of biological waste is ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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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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Label policies, marketing strategies and technical developements of compost market in the European countries
Traditionally the use of soil improvers in agriculture is aimed at the restoration of the organic substance removed from the agro-ecosystem by crops. The addition of humus, as replacement for the portion gradually mineralised by the micro-organisms of the soil, leads to the conservation of its fertility under many point of view: physical (e.g. porosity, drainage, aeration), chemical (availability ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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How the Earthworm Improves the Soil
Nature has ways of converting vegetable and mineral raw materials into high-quality products. The inconspicuous earthworm provides striking example — it is a minirefinery in the soil. The dew worm or common earthworm, which is native to Europe, is just one of more than 3000 earthworm species in the world. About 30 centimeters long, the powerful earthworm digs vertical burrows ...
By Sulzer Ltd.
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The relevance of moisture control in organic municipal Solid waste windrow composting process
The valorisation of the Municipal Solid Waste composting fraction assumes importance in management strategies of the MSW and constitutes a way of producing an organic material such as humus to improve the soil aeration, the water holding capacity and valuable product when used as soil amendment because it is a source of nutrients (N, P, K) and useful for recovery of poor and degraded soils. It ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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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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Advantages and precautions of NPK organic fertilizer granulator
The humus in organic fertilizer increases the content of soil organic matter, which is beneficial to the formation of good soil structure, especially the increase of water stable aggregate structure, so as to improve the tightness, aeration, water retention and heat status of soil, and has a good effect on the water, fertilizer, air and heat conditions that determine the soil fertility. It is ...
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How long does it take for organic fertilizer fermentation equipment to process compost
According to different raw materials, organic composting fermentation equipment can be divided into high temperature composting and ordinary composting. High temperature composting takes plant materials with high fiber content as the main raw materials, and generates a lot of heat through composting and fermentation under aerated conditions. The temperature of composting is very high (50-60 ...
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The important role of organic fertilizer equipment turner in the fermentation process
According to the survey, the utilization rate of chemical fertilizers in my country is only 35% to 40%, and the rest is fixed by soil or leached by rainwater, causing environmental problems such as water pollution and eutrophication of lakes. Experts urgently call for reducing the use of chemical fertilizers, using more new biological fertilizers, and applying more organic fertilizers. The ...
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Composting and biogasification for senna pod waste stabilization
A medical factory in Finland extracts sennocid from pods of a senna plant with a solvent containing methanol and water. Sennocid is the active compound in some constipation medicines (Otavan Iso Kasvitietosanankirja, 1981). The extraction process produces 50 m3 of pod waste weekly. In 1998, 757 tons of pod waste was produced. The water and methanol contents of the waste are approximately 25 w/w-% ...
By ORBIT e.V.
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