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Composting and compost application in China [PDF]

Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2000
The current situation of municipal solid waste (MSW) and sewage sludge production (in terms of volume as well as composition) in China is introduced. Composting and compost application in China are reviewed. In China, the production of municipal solid waste and sewage sludge is changing rapidly along with economic development.
Min-Jian Wang, Yuansong Wei, Yaobo Fan, Ju-Si Wang   +3 more
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Evaluation of biochar from tea pruning residue and tea fluff compost utilization to alleviate soil chemical properties on an Inceptisol

Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management, 2022
The inorganic fertilizer that is used excessively in tea plantations causes soil health degradation. Tea pruning residue and tea fluff are local biomass that has the potential to be used as alternatives to soil nutrient input that is not well conducted ...
Faris Nur Fauzi Athallah, Restu Wulansari   +1 more
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Accelerated biothermal composting of manure-compost mixture

Agraarteadus, 2021
The aim of the research was to observe the technological processes of accelerated biothermal composting of manure-compost mixture and to determine the dynamics of its temperature regime. Because of experimental research of conditions of biothermal processes of composting of manure-compost mix the mathematical laws describing dynamics of change of a ...
Aliiev, Elchyn, Pavlenko, Sergey, Aliieva, Olga, Morhun, Olesia   +3 more
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Structural and Functional Shift in Soil Bacterial Community in Response to Long-Term Compost Amendment in Paddy Field

Applied Sciences, 2021
Microbial community composition and diversity of agricultural soils primarily depend on management practices. The application of compost on agricultural fields is known to increase soil fertility, which can also help to enhance agricultural productivity.
Sookjin Kim, Sandipan Samaddar, Poulami Chatterjee, Aritra Roy Choudhury, Jeongyun Choi, Jongseo Choi, Tongmin Sa   +6 more
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The Cost of Plastics in Compost [PDF]

Frontiers in Sustainability, 2021
In urban Blantyre, there is ample green-waste and widespread interest in compost, but the feedstock is often contaminated with plastics. If composting is going to become more widely implemented, it must be profitable and ideally, competitive with chemical nutrients, however the time and cost associated with plastics removal is currently a bottleneck to
Yesaya, Mabvuto, Mpanang'ombe, Wrixon, Tilley, Elizabeth; id_orcid0000-0002-2095-9724   +2 more
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Agricultural quality matrix-based multiomics structural analysis of carrots in soils fertilized with thermophile-fermented compost [PDF]

, 2022
Compost is used worldwide as a soil conditioner for crops, but its functions have still been explored. Here, the omics profiles of carrots were investigated, as a root vegetable plant model, in a field amended with compost fermented with thermophilic Bacillaceae for growth and quality indices.
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Compositional and Functional Changes in Microbial Communities of Composts Due to the Composting-Related Factors and the Presence of Listeria monocytogenes

Microbiology Spectrum, 2022
Listeria monocytogenes is a leading foodborne pathogen that can contaminate fresh produce in farm environment, resulting in deadly outbreaks. Composts contain a diversity of microorganisms, and some of them may be compost-adapted competitive exclusion ...
Hongye Wang, Vijay Shankar, Xiuping Jiang   +2 more
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Developing a multi- objective mathematical programming model for compost supply chain design regarding the produced compost quality and environmental sustainability. [PDF]

مجله مدل سازی در مهندسی, 2022
For a long time, waste materials have been used to produce compost by different methods. Despite the high importance of compost as an organic fertilizer for the fertility of agricultural products, the literature review on the compost supply chain shows ...
sima ghayebloo, fariba fathipour, mahsa alimohammadi   +2 more
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Control of Phytophthora capsici and Phytophthora parasitica on pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) with compost teas from different sources, and their effects on plant growth promotion

Phytopathologia Mediterranea, 2014
Suppressive effects of different compost teas were evaluated against the phytopathogens P. capsici and P. parasitica, isolated from diseased plants from commercial sweet pepper farms in Almería (Spain), during 2011.
Francisco MARIN, Fernando DIÁNEZ, Mila SANTOS, Francisco CARRETERO, Francisco GEA, Carlos CASTAÑEDA, María NAVARRO, José YAU   +7 more
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Effect of compost tea on the quality promotion of sweet corn (Zea mays var. Rugosa) in organic cultivation [PDF]

Journal of Horticulture and Postharvest Research
Purpose: A field experiment was designed to determine the effects of compost tea on the quality parameters of sweet corn produced without the use of mineral fertilizers. Research method: This research was conducted in the Taraba State University Teaching
Tanko Bako, Iliyasu Ali, Junaid Aminu
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