The land disposal of waste from the poultry industry and subsequent environmental
implications has stimulated interest into cleaner and more useful disposal options. The …

Compost is organic matter that has undergone partial thermophilic, aerobic decomposition.
This environmentally safe process is called composting. The combination of raw materials …

Chicken litter (a mixture of chicken manure, wood shavings, waste feed, and feathers) was
composted in forced-aeration piles to understand the changes and losses of nitrogen (N) …

Compost was tested as a medium for organic container-grown crops. Nitrogen (N) loss
during composting of separated cow manure (SCM) was minimized using high C/N (wheat …

Compost is a main source of organic matter (OM) and of nitrogen for organic farming in arid
and semiarid regions. An effort has been made to reduce nitrogen loss during composting of …

Poultry droppings, neem cake, castor cake, jatropha cake and grass clippings were used
separately as organic nitrogen additives to decrease the high C: N ratio of wheat straw …

Disposal and storage of raw poultry manure has become an environmental problem
because of the associated air, water and soil pollution. Poultry manure begins to decompose …

Coir pith, a ligno-cellulosic biomass formed during extraction of coir fibre from coconut husk,
accumulates as a waste material near coir processing factories causing environmental and …

The co-composting of shredded waste office paper with Broiler Litter (BL) in windrows was
analysed in this study. Two compost mixes were monitored for five weeks; Mix 1 comprised …

The importance of soilless cultivation is steadily rising worldwide, leading to questions about
its sustainability. In general terms, growing plants in soilless media is a sustainable …