Lacto-fermented mix of faeces and bio-waste supplemented by biochar improves the growth and yield of corn (Zea mays L.)
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ANDREEV, Nadejda, RONTELTAP, Mariska, LENS, Piet N.L., BOINCEAN, Boris, BULAT, Lidia, ZUBCOV, Elena. Lacto-fermented mix of faeces and bio-waste supplemented by biochar improves the growth and yield of corn (Zea mays L.). In: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 2016, nr. 232, pp. 263-272. ISSN 0167-8809. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2016.08.012
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Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment
Numărul 232 / 2016 / ISSN 0167-8809

Lacto-fermented mix of faeces and bio-waste supplemented by biochar improves the growth and yield of corn (Zea mays L.)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2016.08.012

Pag. 263-272

Andreev Nadejda1, Ronteltap Mariska1, Lens Piet N.L.1, Boincean Boris2, Bulat Lidia2, Zubcov Elena3
 
1 UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft,
2 Selectia Research Institute of Field Crops,
3 Institute of Zoology ASM
 
 
Disponibil în IBN: 5 octombrie 2020


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Resource oriented sanitation has emerged as a need to improve the efficacy of excreta treatment schemes, reduce the environmental pollution from their disposal and improve soil fertility. In urine diverting dry toilets, the storage alone is inefficient for faeces treatment due to poor hygienization, incomplete decomposition, as well as high losses of organic matter and nutrients. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of stored faeces and bio-waste treated via lactic acid fermentation and supplemented by urine charged biochar on the growth and yield of corn as well as on the soil quality in a two year field experiment. Lacto-fermentation of faeces and bio-waste was performed under microaerobic conditions in earth pits covered with plastic foil, by the addition of microbial innoculum and molasses. The fertilizer was compared to an unfertilized control, a lacto-fermented mix (faeces, bio-waste, molasses and microbial innoculum) without biochar, stored faeces, cattle manure, urine and mineral fertilizer. In addition, during the second year, a vermi-composted lacto-fermented mix and biochar was applied as well. Differences of means among the treatments concerning corn growth parameters, yield and soil quality were evaluated using the Dunnet test of multiple comparisons. The lacto-fermented mix supplemented by biochar significantly improved plant height (p < 0.05 and confidence interval CI with both negative values) compared to all fertilizers during the first production year and compared to the control, stored faeces and vermicompost during the second year. This fertilizer also achieved a significantly higher corn yield compared to all other fertilizers during first and second production year, except for the lacto-fermented mix without biochar and the mineral fertilizer, which showed no significant yield difference (p > 0.05, CI with both positive and negative values). The bulk density was reduced during both years while the soil potassium content increased only during the first production year. 

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Biochar amendment, Human faeces, Lacto-fermentation, Soil quality improvement, yield increase