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IMPROVING SANDY SOIL PROPERTIES BY USING FERTILIZER PELLETS MADE FROM AGRICULTURE WASTES

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Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

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Land and Water

Abstract

Five products for fertilizer pellets made from the olive pomace (OP), biochar (Bp), bonechar (Bb) and some additives like zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnONPs) with pellets diameters 5mm and 10 mm have been studied. Samples have been manufactured and tested on sandy soils. Results showed that pellets with 10 mm disintegrate after 24 hours while the pellets with of 5 mm were more stable for longer time. According to the SEM test, the chemical composition of tested OP pellets of diameters 5 mm for C, N and O contents were 47.5%, 16.3% and 33.1% and 49.8%, 17.0% and 32.6% for outer and inner sphere, respectively. At the column experiment, the increasing pH after addition of pellets mixed with biochar due to the low buffering capacity of the sandy soil used. No salt accumulation was observed in any treatments after pellets application, and EC values remained in the appropriate range for some plant growth. Measuring the bulk density after pellets addition to the soil column at the end of the incubation, the average values of bulk density were 1.49 (control), 1.48 (OP), 1.45 (OP+Bp), 1.44 (OP+Bb), 1.46 (OP+Bp+Bb), and 1.43 (OP_Bp+Bb+ZnONP) g cm-3. the benefit of converting the amended organic fertilizers to be pellets is to prevent the immigration of organic pellets through the soil column.

DOI

10.21608/sinjas.2022.103725.1063

Keywords

Biochar, sandy soil, drainage, Bulk density, Agriculture wastes

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Eidarous

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Affiliation

Dept. Soil and Water, Fac. Environ. Agric. Sci., Arish Univ., 45516, Egypt.

Email

mohmedeidarous@gmail.com

City

Sharkia

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First Name

Amro

Last Name

Hassanein

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Dept. Environ. Sci. and Technol., College Agric. and Natural Resources, Univ. Maryland, USA.

Email

ahassane@umd.edu

City

Maryland

Orcid

0000-0001-7891-2454

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Mady

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Dept. Agric. Eng., Fac. Agric., Suez Canal Univ., Egypt.

Email

mohamadatia2018@gmail.com

City

Ismailia

Orcid

-

First Name

Ezzat

Last Name

Marzouk

MiddleName

R.

Affiliation

Dept. Soil and Water, Fac. Environ. Agric. Sci., Arish Univ., 45516, Egypt.

Email

ezzat_marzouk@aru.edu.eg

City

North Sinai

Orcid

0000-0001-9720-1594

Volume

11

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

31177

Issue Date

2022-02-01

Receive Date

2021-11-03

Publish Date

2022-02-01

Page Start

63

Page End

84

Print ISSN

2314-6079

Online ISSN

2682-3527

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https://sinjas.journals.ekb.eg/article_208597.html

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Publication Title

Sinai Journal of Applied Sciences

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https://sinjas.journals.ekb.eg/

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IMPROVING SANDY SOIL PROPERTIES BY USING FERTILIZER PELLETS MADE FROM AGRICULTURE WASTES

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22 Jan 2023