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Effect of applying Banana Waste Biochar on soil properties and growth of cultivated plants in sandy soil

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Soil and water sciences

Abstract

Three pot experiments were conducted during three successive seasons to study the effects of Banana trees residues biochar at a level of 0  , 0.5, 1, 2 and 5%   on the soil properties, N, P, and K availability as well as, growth, nutrient uptake of different crop plants  under this study The results showed that, additions of banana waste biochar  to the soil led to an increase in the organic matter content,  pH , EC ,  total nitrogen, available phosphorus, and available potassium in the soil. On the other hand, it led to a decrease in the percentage of the total calcium carbonate in the soil. These effects increase with increasing the rate of biochar added to the soil. In addition, the use of banana waste biochar at low rates (0.5 and 1%) led to an increase in the plant height, root length, dry matter yield of plants and N, P and K uptake by plants compared to other treatments. On the other hand, application of banana biochar at rates 2 and 5% gave significant decreased in the height of plants, root length, dry matter yield and N, P and K uptake by plants compared to other treatments. These results show that, additional research is required to determine the short- and long-term effects of adding banana waste biochar treatments on the characteristics of the soil and available nutrients as well as plant growth and nutrients uptake under field conditions and extensive trials.

DOI

10.21608/svuijas.2023.212406.1287

Keywords

Biochar, Banana waste, soil properties, Growth, uptake

Authors

First Name

H.M.

Last Name

Farrag

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Affiliation

Soil and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, South Valley University, 83523 Qena, Egypt

Email

hosnyfarraj@yahoo.com

City

Qena

Orcid

0000-0002-3734-9156

Volume

5

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

39219

Issue Date

2023-04-01

Receive Date

2023-05-23

Publish Date

2023-06-25

Page Start

54

Page End

66

Print ISSN

2636-3801

Online ISSN

2636-381X

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1,132

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Publication Title

SVU-International Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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https://svuijas.journals.ekb.eg/

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Effect of applying Banana Waste Biochar on soil properties and growth of cultivated plants in sandy soil

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25 Dec 2024