Environmental and production aspects of using fertilizers based on waste elemental sulfur and organic materials

Abstrakt

Crop fertilization with sulfur is an important part of agricultural practices, as is the systematic increase in soil organic matter content. Materials of waste origin constitute a source of plant-available sulfur, as well as soil organic matter. The study was to verify the hypothesis assuming that combining waste sulfur pulp and its mixtures with organic materials enables simultaneous soil enrichment with readily available sulfur and organic matter. A 240-day incubation experiment was conducted, on two soils: very light and heavy; with two sulfur doses applied to each soil (20 and 40 mg S/kg d.m. for very light soil, and 30 and 60 mg S/kg d.m. for heavy soil). The sulfate sulfur content in the incubated soil material, treated with the addition of sulfur pulp and its mixtures with organic materials, increased significantly up to day 60 and then decreased. The application of these materials significantly increased the content of available sulfur and decreased the pH value of the incubated material. The effect of the introduced materials on dehydrogenase activity depended on soil granulometric composition (the impact of the applied materials on the activity of these enzymes in very light soil was small, and in heavy soil, their activity was usually limited by the presence of introduced materials). Application of the studied materials had little effect on the total organic carbon content in the incubated soil material (a significant change in the value of this parameter, in relation to the control soil, was recorded in some treatments of heavy soil)

Autorzy

Aneta Lisowska
Aneta Lisowska
Barbara Filipek-Mazur
Barbara Filipek-Mazur
Monika Komorowska
Monika Komorowska
Marcin Niemiec
Marcin Niemiec
Dominika Bar-Michalczyk
Dominika Bar-Michalczyk
Maciej Kuboń
Maciej Kuboń
Sylwester Tabor
Sylwester Tabor
Zofia Gródek-Szostak
Zofia Gródek-Szostak
Anna Szeląg-Sikora
Anna Szeląg-Sikora
Jakub Sikora
Jakub Sikora
Zbigniew Wasąg
Zbigniew Wasąg
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Angielski
2022
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