Al-Magrebi, N. (2016). EFFECT OF ADDING DIFFERENT LEVELS OF CITY WASTE COMPOST ON SOME PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SOIL AND GROWTH OF Zea mays PLANTS .. Journal of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Engineering, 7(2), 147-153. doi: 10.21608/jssae.2016.39378
N. Al-Magrebi. "EFFECT OF ADDING DIFFERENT LEVELS OF CITY WASTE COMPOST ON SOME PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SOIL AND GROWTH OF Zea mays PLANTS .". Journal of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Engineering, 7, 2, 2016, 147-153. doi: 10.21608/jssae.2016.39378
Al-Magrebi, N. (2016). 'EFFECT OF ADDING DIFFERENT LEVELS OF CITY WASTE COMPOST ON SOME PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SOIL AND GROWTH OF Zea mays PLANTS .', Journal of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Engineering, 7(2), pp. 147-153. doi: 10.21608/jssae.2016.39378
Al-Magrebi, N. EFFECT OF ADDING DIFFERENT LEVELS OF CITY WASTE COMPOST ON SOME PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SOIL AND GROWTH OF Zea mays PLANTS .. Journal of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Engineering, 2016; 7(2): 147-153. doi: 10.21608/jssae.2016.39378
EFFECT OF ADDING DIFFERENT LEVELS OF CITY WASTE COMPOST ON SOME PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SOIL AND GROWTH OF Zea mays PLANTS .
Soil and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Sana University, - Alyamen
Abstract
The solid wastes of city represent an economic value for its free raw materials included which can be recycled and accessed into a number of industries in which organic materials could be composted and transferred to organic fertilizer represent 60% from the total solid remnants . So that ,the idea of the current study is aiming to study the impact of adding an organic fertilizer extracted from city garbage on some characteristics of the physical soil . A simple experiment has been designed including a lonely factor under studying which is the city waste compost fertilizer of the organic remnants at four different levels with control : 0,10,20,40 tons /hectares . The experiment was carried out during the spring season of 2008 at the Educational Farm , Faculty of Agriculture , Sana'a University . A complete randomized block design was used in three replicates. The addition of organic fertilizer led to reducing the bulk density of soil and increasing the addition rate . The Bulk Density value reduced to 1.23 g/cm3 at added 40 tons /ha compared with 1.35 g/cm3 for control , and has also led to a significant increase in the Hydraulic Conductivity of the soil at the level of added 40 t / ha . as the value of hydraulic conductivity of 3.80 cm / hour , compared with 3.65 cm / hour to control . and has also led to a significant increase in soil porosity was 53.35 % at added 40 t / ha. also resulted a significant increase in the proportion of available water , where the percentage of available water was 8.73 % at the level of 40 tons / ha compared to 8.44 % for the control. and caused . A significant increase in plant height was observed ,where the values of plant height were 171& 182 cm when add 20&40 t / ha , respectively, and also significant increases in both the number of leaves per plant dry matter weight per plant compared to the control .