Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su14020686
Keywords
slow-release; nitrogen; soil fertility; residual fertilization; tropical soils
Funding
- National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) [404076/2016-5, 308943/2018-0]
- Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES/PROEX)
- CNPq
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This study found that using carbon-rich biochar as a matrix for loading nutrients can enhance fertilizer efficiency. The results of the experiment showed that biochar-based fertilizer enriched with nutrients improved nitrogen-use efficiency and increased the residual effect of fertilization.
Biochar, a carbon-rich material obtained by pyrolysis of organic wastes, is an attractive matrix for loading nutrients and producing enhanced efficiency fertilizers. In this study, poultry litter (PL) was enriched with phosphoric acid (H3PO4) and MgO to produce a biochar-based fertilizer (PLB), which was loaded with urea in a 4:5 ratio (PLB:urea, w/w) to generate a 15-15% N-P slow-release fertilizer (PLB-N) to be used in a single application to soil. A greenhouse experiment was carried out in which a common bean was cultivated followed by maize to evaluate the agronomic efficiency and the residual effect of fertilization with PLB-N in Ultisol. Six treatments were tested, including four doses of N (100, 150, 200, and 250 mg kg(-1)) via PLB-N in a single application, a control with triple superphosphate (TSP-applied once) and urea (split three times), and a control without N-P fertilization. The greatest effect of PLB-N was the residual effect of fertilization, in which maize showed a linear response to the N doses applied via PLB-N but showed no response to conventional TSP + urea fertilization. Biochar has the potential as a loading matrix to preserve N availability and increase residual effects and N-use efficiency by plants.
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