- Title
- Mineralization of farm manures and slurries for successive release of carbon and nitrogen in incubated soils varying in moisture status under controlled laboratory conditions
- Creator
- Islam, Mohammad Rafiqul; Bilkis, Sultana; Hoque, Tahsina Sharmin; Uddin, Shihab; Jahiruddin, Mohammad; Rahman, Mohammad Mazibur; Rahman, Mohammad Mahmudur; Alhomrani, Majid; Gaber, Ahmed; Hossain, Mohammad Anwar
- Relation
- Agriculture Vol. 11, Issue 9, no. 846
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11090846
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Having up-to-date knowledge on the mineralization of organic materials and release of nutrients is of paramount significance to ensure crops’ nutrient demands, increase nutrient use efficiency and ensure the right fertilizer application at the right time. This study seeks to evaluate the mineralization patterns of various manures viz. cowdung (CD), cowdung slurry (CDSL), tricho-compost (TC), vermicompost (VC), poultry manure (PM), poultry manure slurry (PMSL), and mungbean residues (MR). The objective being to establish their efficiency in releasing nutrients under aerobic (field capacity) and anaerobic (waterlogging) conditions. The incubation experiment was designed using a Completely Randomized Design (CRD) that took into account three variables: Manures, soil moisture, and incubation period. The mineralization of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) ranged from 11.2 to 100.1% higher under aerobic conditions rather than anaerobic ones. The first-order kinetic model was used to mineralize both elements. C mineralization was 45.8 to 498.1% higher in an amount from MR under both moisture conditions. For N release, MR and PM exerted maximum amounts in anaerobic and aerobic scenarios, respectively. However, the rate of C and N mineralization was faster in TC compared to other manures in both moisture conditions. Although TC was 1.4 to 37.7% more efficient in terms of rapidity of mineralization, MR and PM performed better concerning the quantity of nutrient release and soil fertility improvement. PM had 22–24% higher N mineralization potential than PMSL while CDSL had 46–56% higher N mineralization potential than CD. C and N mineralization in soil was greater under aerobic conditions compared to what occurred in the anaerobic context. Depending on mineralization potential, the proper type and amount of manure should be added to soil to increase crops’ nutrient use efficiency, which in turn should lead to better crop production.
- Subject
- aerobic and anaerobic conditions; carbon and nitrogen mineralization; manures; release pattern; slurries; SDG 12; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1457172
- Identifier
- uon:45303
- Identifier
- ISSN:2077-0472
- Rights
- © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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