This study was conducted to examine the effect of nutrients balanced fertilizers applications, swine liquid manure(SLM) with synthetic chemical fertilizer on growth and yield of Chinese chive(Allium tuberosum Rottler) and soil properties in green house cultivation during 2015 growing season. There are 4 treatment plots; swine liquid manure(SLM), nutrients balanced fertilizers(mixture of chemical fertilizer with swine liquid manure(SLM+CF), nutrient balanced and pH adjustment (SLM+CF+pH) and the conventional chemical fertilizer(control). The phosphorous acid is added to adjust pH in animal liquid manure. The yield of Chinese chive in plot of swine liquid manure(SLM) was decreased by 4% compared with plot of conventional chemical fertilizer(control). There was no significant differences of growth and yield of Chinese chive between SLM+CF and control. The yield of SLM+CF+pH plot was highest yield as 8,235 kg 10a-1 among 4 treatments and was increased than that of swine liquid manure plot(7,489 kg 10a-1). EC and available P2O5 were decreased by SLM+CF+pH treatment. Combined application of SCM and CF fertilizer can be a useful tool, particularly for the fertigation culture of Chinese chive in greenhouse. In conclusion, the present study demonstrates that the combined application of liquid swine manure and chemical nutrients was responsible for improving yield of Chinese chive and soil properties.
Anaerobic digestion is a collection of naturally occurring processes that convert organic matter and liquid residue, so-called digestate. The use of digestate biofertilizers is one of the important components of integrated nutrient management, as they are renewable sources of plant nutrients for sustainable agriculture. Seeds of Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum L.) were germinated in different concentration of Chlorella in order to investigate it’s the effect of Chlorella on growth parameters, seed germination and early growth. The experiment using plug tray was conducted at the green house placed in the Sangji University. The experiment consisted of nine treatments including different concentrations of Chlorella sp. culture solution and non-treated control. The germination percentage at the treatment with 25% Chlorella sp. culture solution was greater than that of control. The 50% concentration of Chlorella sp. culture solution was found to promote a better seedling growth in terms of shoot length, fresh weight and dry weight compared to the anaerobic digestate. Results showed that the best concentration of Chlorella culture solution was achieved by the 50% concentration of Chlorella culture solution treatment. As a conclusion, the application of Chlorella culture solution was found to be able to promote the germination and shoots growth of Italian ryegrass
This experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of compost leachate and concentrated slurry on growth of tomato in hydroponic culture. In process of composting, compost leachate was produced water was through a saturated compost heap. The concentrated slurry was produced by filtration and concentration by membrane process. Filtration of pig slurry was necessary to prevent the hose clogging in hydroponics culture. The treatments of this experiment were consisted of seven different liquid fertilizers; compost leachate(CL), concentrated pig slurry (CS), compost leachate+byproduct(CL+BP), concentrated pig slurry+byproduct(CS+BP), compost leachate 50%+nutrient solution50%(CL+NS), concentrated pig slurry 50%+nutrient solution50%(CS+NS) and nutrient solution(NS) for tomato based on nitrogen content. The chemical nutrient solution was the solution of National Horticulture Research Station for the growth of tomato. The concentration of nutrient solution was adjusted a range of 1.6~2.0 mS/cm in EC.
1. The compost leachate and concentrated pig slurry were low in phosphorus(P), calcium(Ca), magnesium(Mg), but rich in potassium(K).
2. Plant height, SPAD value of tomato was highest in the plot of CS+NS, intermediate in CL, CS+BP, and lowest in 100% concentrated pig slurry.
3. The tomato yield of compost leachate plot was 91% compared with inorganic nutrient solution. The compost leachate solution could be used as a nutrition solution of tomato in organic hydroponics.
4. The growth including plant height, SPAD value, fruit number, fruit weight and yield of tomato in the CL 50%+NS 50% was similar in the control. In conclusion, the mixture solution of 50% pig slurry and 50% nutrient solution could be used as a nutrition solution of tomato hydroponic culture.