EFFECT OF APPLIED DIFFERENT ORGANIC MANURE LEVELS ON SOME SOIL CHARACTERISTICS

Document Type : Research articles.

Author

Dep. of Horticulture-Faculty of Agriculture –Al-Furat University- Syria.

Abstract

A field experiments was conducted in the experimental station of the
agricultural scientific research centre at Al-Raqqa, Syria using potato as the test
crops through the spring season.
Three organic fertilizers namely sheep manure, wheat compost and
municipal solid waste were added to soil at the rates 25, 50, 75 and 100 tone/ha
in order to study their influence on soil characteristics and potato productivity
in comparison with chemical fertilization.
Results obtained showed that increasing the rate of organic fertilization
increased ece and soil organic matter contents but decreased soil pH with
significant differences due to the kind of organic fertilizer. For satisfactory
productivity and soil characteristics. The used organic fertilizers showed the
order sheep manure
< wheat compost < municipal solid waste.
The use of organic fertilizers resulted in higher potato yields in comparison
with the use of chemical fertilizers in the first season; no definite trend was
observed in the second season, however the level (75 tone/ha) for all studied
organic fertilizers showed higher yields than those with the chemical fertilizers.


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