Biochar and Animal Manure Impact on Soil, Crop Yield and Quality

George Fouad Antonious

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Abstract: Four low-cost organic soil amendments (chicken manure, CM; horse manure, HM; yard water, YW; and sewage sludge, SS) that are generated daily in large amounts, and native bare soil were planted with tomato (Solanum lycopersicum var. Mountain spring) seedlings of 52 days old in raised black plastic-mulch. Each of the 5 treatments was also mixed with biochar to make a total of 10 treatments in a randomized complete block design (RCBD). Results revealed that total fresh weight of tomato fruits collected after three harvests from CM and CM mixed with biochar significantly (P

Keywords: low cost fertilizer; soil amendments; sewage sludge; chicken manure; horse manure; total phenols; vitamin C; soluble sugars (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.77008

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