Analysis and Recommendation of Agriculture Use of Distillery Spentwash in Rampur District, India by Susheel Kumar Sindhu, Amit Sharma, Saiqa Ikram

“…Further, it has been revealed that conjoint application of spentwash and organic amendments (farm yard manure, green leaf manure and bio-compost) is found suitable under dryland conditions. …”
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Conservation agrotechnology to improve soil quality and potato productivity Kuta Rayat Village, Naman Teran District, Karo Regency, North Sumatra by Rosmadelina Purba, Meriaty Meriaty, Ringkop Situmeang

“…The results of this study showed that the dose of Dolomite lime 1.5 tons/ha, manure 20 tons/ha, 150 kg Urea, 150 kg ZA, 250 kg SP-36 and 200 kg KCl was sufficient to obtain optimal potato productivity and improve soil quality.…”
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Growth of olive saplings in different media containing artificial and natural super absorbents at two irrigation intervals by A. Mohammadi Torkashvand, H. Shahin, M. Mohammadi

“…A factorial experiment was conducted to evaluate the impact of super absorbents and organic wastes of rice, olive marc, vermicompost and farmyard manure on the soil water holding capacity and the growth of plant based on randomized complete block design with 13 treatments at two irrigation intervals 5 and 10 days. …”
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Nodulation, Growth, and Yield of Soybean (Glycine max L. Merrill) as Affected by Bio-, Organic, and Inorganic NPSB Fertilizers, and Lime in Assosa Zone, Western Ethiopia by Abiyot Abeje, Getachew Alemayehu, Tesfaye Feyisa

“…Factorial combinations of two biofertilizer inoculants (without biofertilizer (B1) and SB12 plus MAR1495 biofertilizers at their recommended rates of 500 g·ha−1 (B2); two organic fertilizers: without fresh cattle manure (M1) and fresh cattle manure at 10 t·ha−1 (M2); two lime rates: without lime (L1) and lime at 5 t·ha−1 (L2); two inorganic NPSB fertilizers: NPSB at 9.5-23-3.5-0.05 (F1) and NPSB at 19-46-7-0.1 (F2) at their recommended rates for soybean) were laid out in a randomized complete block design with three replications. …”
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Effects of organic amendments on sand dune fixation by E. A. Elhadi, A. R. Mubarak, F. A. M. Rezig

“…Salvadora persica L. seedlings were transplanted in a 2 m 9 2 m plots and treated with: sawdust (SW), chicken manure (CH), chicken manure with sawdust (CH ? SW), sawdust with inorganic fertilizer (SW ? …”
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Nitrogen Use Efficiency and Gaseous Nitrogen Losses from the Concentrated Liquid Fraction of Pig Slurries by G. L. Velthof, R. P. J. J. Rietra

“…Processed manure can be an alternative source of nutrients for untreated manure and mineral fertilizers. …”
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Prospects of Organic Farming in Bhutan: A SWOT Analysis by Sonam Tashi, Kesang Wangchuk

“…Threats included (i) increasing incidences of pests and diseases, (ii) decline in sources of organic manure, and (iii) limited sources of organic manures and fertilizers.…”
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Study on Anaerobic Digestion and the Treatment of Livestock and Poultry Waste Liquid by Nanoparticles and Antibiotics in the Context of Carbon Neutrality and Microbial Ecosystems by Xiaofei Zhen, Han Zhan, Ke Li, Ruonan Jiao, Lei Feng, Tie Du

“…Livestock and poultry waste liquid contains a lot of nitrogen, phosphorus, and microorganisms, and direct discharge causes great harm to the environment. Chicken manure was selected as the research object, and nanoparticle nano-Fe₂O₃, nano-C₆₀, antibiotics enrofloxacin, sulfamethoxazole, and oxytetracycin were selected as additives to carry out medium-temperature sequential batch anaerobic digestion experiment. …”
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Organic versus Conventional Agriculture: Comparison of Economic and Environmental Sustainability by Balode Lauma, Pakere Ieva, Luksta Ilze, Blumberga Dagnija

“…The dairy industry generates significant emissions from enteric fermentation, manure and long-term storage. The emissions produced depend greatly on factors such as livestock feeding, manure management systems, feed content, and quality. …”
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Short-Term Effect of Vermicompost Application on Biological Properties of an Alkaline Soil with High Lime Content from Mediterranean Region of Turkey by Ilker Uz, Ismail Emrah Tavali

“…This study was conducted to investigate direct short-term impact of vermicompost on some soil biological properties by monitoring changes after addition of vermicompost as compared to farmyard manure in an alkaline soil with high lime content from semiarid Mediterranean region of Turkey. …”
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Antibiotic ecotoxicity and resistance risks in resource-constrained chicken and pig farming environments by Fredrick Gudda, Dishon Muloi, Fredrick Nganga, Cynthia Nolari, Yanzheng Gao, Arshnee Moodley

“…Chicken compost (25.8%, n = 97/376) had the highest antibiotics prevalence, followed by pig manure-fertilized soils (23.1%, n = 83/360). The average antibiotic concentration was 63.4 µg/kg, which is below the environmentally relevant threshold (100 µg/kg), except for trimethoprim (221.4 µg/kg) among antibiotics and pig manure-fertilized soils (129.3 µg/kg) across sample types. …”
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Evaluation of integrated sludge worm and catfish farming with biofloc system by Dedi Pardiansyah, Eddy Supriyono, Daniel Djokosetianto

“…This study used a completely randomized design with four treatments and two replications, in which treatment A (addition of catfish culture waste from intensive system), treatment B (addition of catfish culture waste from biofloc system), treatment C (the addition of fermented chicken manure at the beginning of experiment as negative control), and treatment D (addition of fermented chicken manure at the beginning of experiment and then every five days as positive control). …”
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Impact of Eisenia fetida populations on bioâconversion of paper mill solid wastes by Devjani Mohapatra, K. Sahoo, A. K. Sannigrahi

“…Vermicomposting is an eco-friendly technique for beneficial conversion of different biodegradable/organic wastes into useful organic manure utilizing earthworms. Solid wastes generated in paper mills contain appreciable quantity of organic matter. …”
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Trade-offs between carbon conservation and profitability in crop cultivation: unlocking potential through diversifying crop allocations regionally by Eveliina Kiiaki, Kari Hyytiäinen

“…Optimal strategies include reducing spring crops and fodder grass while increasing nitrogen-fixing grasses and high-profit crops like clover grass, green manure, potato, and sugar beet. Sensitivity analysis highlighted the importance of higher yields for enhanced outcomes, emphasizing the need to enhance forage grass, clover grass, and green manure yields for carbon balance and forage grass, potato, sugar beet, and spring crop yields for increased variable profit. …”
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Sewage sludge composting in a rotary drum reactor: stability and kinetic analysis by Ashish Kumar Nayak, Ajay S. Kalamdhad

“…Conclusions The results suggested that composting of sewage sludge with optimal proportion of cattle manure and saw dust, especially in C/N 30, can produce stable compost within 20 days of composting.…”
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Sustainability and lives of coffee farmers in Magetan Regency, East Java, Indonesia by Rahayu Endang Siti, Widadie Fanny, Irianto Heru, Handayani Sugiharti Mulya, Setyowati, Sundari Mei Tri

“…Sustainability efforts include protecting the environment through the use of manure, planting shade trees, and adopting conservation-oriented coffee cultivation practices.…”
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VsMATE1-Mediated Citrate Efflux Is Involved in Al Resistance in Common Vetch (<i>Vicia sativa</i> L.) by Wenhui Yan, Jia Shi, Ling He, Zigang Hou, Zhenfei Guo, Haifeng Zhu

“…Planting aluminum-tolerant legume green manure is a cost-effective and sustainable method to increase soil fertility as well as decrease Al toxicity in acidic soils. …”
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RESPONSE OF LOCAL ORANGE TRANSPLANTS TO BIO AND ORGANIC FERTILIZERS AND SPRAYING WITH MORINGA LEAVES EXTRACT by Fatima Saad Hameed AL-Marsoumi, Mustafa, E. A. AL-Hadethi

“…Experimental results showed that adding two types of bacteria (A4) and buffalo manure at a level of 500 g.soil-1 (B2) and spraying moringa extract at a concentration of 40 g.L-1 (M2) as interaction treatment A4B2M2 produced best results in shoot  number, stem diameter,  leaf potassium and iron percent %, and epidermal and spongy cells layers thickness, (25.00, 41.00) shoot.plant-1, (14.247, 5.283) mm, (2.980, 2.885) %, (215.8, 220.7) mg.kg-1 for two growing seasons, respectively, and (48.60, 108.4) micrometer, respectively compared to control treatment. …”
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Enhancing food waste compost quality with nutrient amendments by John Nkansah, Samson Oduro-Kwarteng, Helen Essandoh, Richard Kuffuor

“…In developing countries, however, there are few commercial composting facilities producing composts whose use in agriculture is low, mainly due to their low nutrient content compared to chemical fertilizers.Method This study investigated the effect of the food waste (FW) nutrient-amendment ratio on compost quality using amendments such as Cocoa Pod Husk Ash (CPHA), poultry manure (PM), and cow manure (CM). Six treatments (T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, and T6) and control were composted for 70 days.Results The total Nitrogen, total Phosphorous, and total Potassium content ranged from 0.96–1.42%, 0.19–0.78%, and 0.86-1.42%, respectively, for the different compost types. …”
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Optimized fertilization patterns increase foxtail millet biomass on the distribution and transformation in Loess Plateau of China. by Tianyou Zhou, Qinhui Liu, Shuangshuang Yang, Zhihao Wang, Panpan Zhang, Xiaolin Wang, Xiaoling Ji, Xiong Zhang

“…Organic manure or microbial fertilizers are essential sources of plant nutrients to supplement farmland soil, and organic and inorganic fertilizers are considered an effective way to achieve sustainable agriculture by improving the soil and increasing crop yields. …”
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