Pearl millet is the most widely grown cereal crop in arid and semi-arid regions of Africa, Niger particular. To determine an optimized management strategy for smallholder farmers southern to cope with production failure improve cropping performance context climate change variability, multi-site trials were conducted evaluate impacts transplanting on pearl growth productivity. Eight treatments v...

An experiment was carried out on loamy sand soil to evaluate the effect of organic manures (farmyard manure, vermicompost, poultry manure, neem cake and castor cake) on soil and quality parameters of cowpea during summer season of 2014. Nine treatments were tried out in randomized block design with four replications. Recommended Dose Fertilizer (RDF) i.e. 2040-0 NPK kg ha-1 recorded significant...

Inoculant of Trichoderma fungi was used to treat into rice straw at different times for decomposition to study “Effect of decomposed rice straw at different times on rice yields”. The decomposed rice straw at 1, 2, 3, 4 weeks gave C/N ratio from 24.12 31.71 in dry season and from 16.64 31.12 in wet season, these C/ N ratio was lower as compared to rice straw, which was not treated by inoculant ...

In this study, waste water drains and produced phosphate fertilizers of conventional wet-process (hemihydrate) phosphoric acid and phosphate fertilizer plants were investigated to determine the average uranium contents in the active manufacturing period. The method chosen for the determination of uranium was an extension of an existing spectroanalytical method and was adopted for waste water an...

The influence of application of increasing doses of selenium (0.05 mg, 0.10 mg and 0.20 mg/kg) into soil in pot experiments, with NPK fertilization of spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L., variety Banti), on the biomass yield (grain, straw, roots) and on selenium accumulation was observed. Selenium in the form of sodium selenite (Na2SeO3·5H2O) and the NPK nutrients in the form of LAD-27, Ca(H2PO4...

The experiment was conducted at lowland series of wet lands, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Farm, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines. The rice variety PSBRc 82 was raised during wet season (June – October), and the experiment was laid out in randomized block design with four replications. There were eleven treatments viz., control, recommended NPK fertilizer, -N, -P, -K, LCC 3, LCC 4,...

Extensive field farming and homegardening (representing an intensive resource management system) on different inclination positions were compared on the basis of soil quality and productivity of maize and Mung bean over two years, in Meegahakiula, Sri Lanka. Soil organic matter (SOM) content of homegardens was greater than in fields irrespective of the inclination and it was more pronounced in ...

This study examined the efficiency of different organic waste materials as NPK fertilizer, in addition to the risk for leaching losses related to shower precipitation in the first part of the growing season. The experiment was tested in a pot trial on a sandy soil in a greenhouse. Six organic fertilizers were evaluated: liquid anaerobic digestate (LAD) sourced from separated household waste, ni...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate possible methods to enhance the rate of biodegradation of oil sludge from crude oil tank bottom, thus reducing the time usually required for bioremediation. Enhancement of biodegradation was achieved through bioaugmentation and biostimulation. About 10% and 20% sludge contaminated sterile and non-sterile soil samples were treated with bacteria...