Compost Effects on Soil Nutritional Quality and Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) Yield

Authors : Melis CERCİOGLU

Pages : 155-162

Doi:10.15832/ankutbd.396547

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Publication Date : 2019-06-05

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :There is a large amount of organic waste depending on the climatic conditions and product diversity in the agricultural  areas of Turkey. These wastes can be used as a soil conditioner to reduce environmental problems and enrich soil organic  matter by the transformation of organic wastes into organic manure with the process of composting. This study was  performed to investigate the effects of composted greenhouse wastes insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(tomato residues); and animal manure on macro  nutrient contents of soil and green pepper yield. Treatments were as follows: insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(1); Control, insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(2); mineral fertilizer, insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(3); 40  t ha-1 animal manure, insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(4); 40 t ha-1 animal manure + mineral fertilizer, insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(5); 40 t ha-1 tomato residuals, insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(6); 40 t ha-1 tomato  residuals + mineral fertilizer, insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(7); 80 t ha-1 tomato residuals, insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(8); 80 t ha-1 tomato residuals + mineral fertilizer. Three  replicates each of disturbed soil samples insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(two sampling); were collected insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(0-20 cm); from each treatment in two vegetation  period and green pepper was used as a test plant in the study. In consequence of the research, significant increases were  observed in crop yield and macro nutrient contents of soil. The highest increasing rate was analyzed in yield values as  305%. The most effective treatments on soil macro nutrient content and yield were determined as 40 t ha-1 animal manure  combined with mineral fertilizer and 80 t ha-1 composted tomato residues combined with mineral fertilizer.
Keywords : animal manure, compost, greenhouse waste, macronutrients, yield