0 decaying plant material that is added to soil to improve its quality
1 to collect and store plant material so it can decay and be added to soil to improve its quality:
2 decaying material of plants, unwanted food, etc., added to dirt to improve the growth of new plants
The nutrient supplying capacity of banana residues in combination with leguminous materials and chicken manure was investigated in composting studies.
Effect of composted organic amendments on the incidence of bacterial wilt to tomato.
Nutrient losses in surface and subsurface flow from pasture applied poultry litter and composted poultry litter.
Landfarming is similar to composting systems for destroying organic or biological sludges from municipal and industrial waste water treatment systems.
Sustained coffee production will, therefore, require correction of this negative balance by regular application of inorganic fertilizers and/or large amounts of nutrient-rich composts.
After the pulping the coffee beans are washed and the remaining pulp is usually composted.
Increasing the proportion of banana residue in the mixture (as in the 2: 1: 1 treatments) means lengthening the composting period to 8 weeks.
Samples were collected from each treatment at 4-week intervals from the start of the composting process until 16 weeks.
