『Abstract
Rock phosphate (RP) alone or in combination with vermicomposts
was incubated at room temperature in Aqualfs to reveal their effect
on nutrient dynamics. Different types of organic wastes viz. cow
dung, grasses, aquatic weeds and municipal soil wastes (MSW) were
used for vermicompost preparation. Fresh cow dung is the cheapest
and most commonly used bulk organic manure in India. So it was
also applied as a treatment for comparative study between vermicompost
and cow dung. Higher rate of P-mineralization was recorded in
soil treated with RP as compared to other treatments. But after
60 days of incubation, available P content was declined in this
soil, and finally it (14.36 mg kg-1) became statistically
at par with available P-content of soils received vermicompost
prepared from grass (13.66 mg kg-1) and cow dung (13.43
mg kg-1). Application of vermicompost in soil increased
pH, organic carbon, mineralizable nitrogen and exchangeable potassium
content in soil as compared to the application of RP alone. Clustering
was done to identify the similar treatments using standard technique.
We also proposed a bi-phasic model, which could explain the dynamics
of phosphorus release in acid lateritic soils.
Keywords: Vermicomposts; Cow dung; Organic wastes; Rock phosphate;
Phosphorus dynamics; B-Phasic model』
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
2.1. Substrates used
2.2. Incubation study
2.3. Chemical analyses
2.4. Model
2.4.1. Motivation in model building
2.4.2. Simulated and experimental model
2.5. Statistical analysis
3. Results
3.1. Physico-chemical properties
3.2. pH
3.3. Organic carbon content
3.4. Mineralizable nitrogen content
3.5. Exchangeable potassium content
3.6. Available phosphorus content
3.7. Clustering and model fitting
4. Discussions
4.1. Physico-chemical properties
4.2. Phosphorus solubilization
5. Conclusion
References