Some utilisation options for cattle dung as soil amendment and their effects in coarse-textured Ultisols and maize growth

International Journal of Recycling Organic Waste in Agriculture

مقاله 10، دوره 12، شماره 1، خرداد 2023، صفحه 123-139   

نوع مقاله: Original Article

شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.30486/ijrowa.2022.1934239.1284

نویسندگان

Solange D. Ndzeshala؛ Sunday E. Obalum^* ؛ Charles A. Igwe

Department of Soil Science, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria

چکیده

Purpose Scarcity of effective manures frustrates the adoption of organic-based soil fertility management in tropical agriculture. Cattle dung (CD) is hugely generated but underutilised due to its high carbon-nitrogen ratio and low mineralisation rate compared with poultry droppings (PD), hence the need to enhance CD's efficacy.
Method Effects of CD utilisation options on fertility of sandy-loam Ultisols and maize growth were assessed under glasshouse conditions. Four options, CD in its cured form (CD), CD-derived biochar (BC), CD water-soaked CD fermentate (FM) and CD+urea (CDU), were assessed against cured PD and NPK-15:15:15 as reference manure and fertilizer, respectively, using 5-kg potted soils watered to and maintained at field capacity. Organic amendments were added at 10-t-ha^–1 equivalents before sowing except FM added alongside CDU’s urea at 250 kg ha^–1 equivalent after sowing. Also, NPK-15:15:15 was added at 400 kg ha^–1 equivalent after sowing.
Results After 9 weeks, BC, CDU and PD had similar effects on soil pH, organic matter, total N and available P which increased by 49-51%, 30-34%, 200-333% and 164-176%, respectively relative to the control. The BC always showed maize plants similar to the tallest ones in PD. Maize dry matter was the highest in CDU/PD (35.06-35.56 g pot^–1) and the lowest in control (9.56 g pot^–1). Residual effects showed that BC and PD maintained the increases in soil pH, while CDU/PD always showed tallest plants and enhanced dry matter over the rest except BC. Soil pH, Mg²⁺ and base saturation together caused 93% of treatments’ effects on dry matter.
Conclusion Converting CD to BC or supplementing it with urea (CDU) in coarse-textured tropical soils could have prolonged liming and/or biomass productivity-enhancing effects as PD.

کلیدواژه‌ها

Agronomic evaluation؛ Cattle-dung biochar؛ Liquid fermentate؛ Low-fertility tropical soils؛ Organic amend-ments؛ Urea addition

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