Inoculation accelerates compost maturation and helps enrich the soil with nutrients
The effect of applying organic fertilizers to fields can hardly be overestimated - both to increase crop yields and to maintain soil fertility. Compost has got a number of remarkable advantages over fertilizing with ordinary manure.
Composting is the breakdown of organic matter by microorganisms, creating a humified substrate. It is enriched with useful microflora, nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus and trace elements. Besides its content is much higher than in conventional organic fertilizers. The benefits of applying compost to the fields are obvious and confirmed by many years of practice.
BTU-CENTER products improve the biological, chemical and physical properties of the soil, reduce its mineralization and enrich organic matter.
Technology is important
The production of high-quality compost is possible only by strict adherence to the technology. The main components in certain proportions are cattle, pig and chicken manure, in addition to slaughterhouse waste and cereal straw or other carbonaceous component such as sawdust and fallen leaves. It is important to moisten and mix all these selected components. The compost should be placed in piles 2.5 m wide and 1.5 m high. It is necessary to control constantly the temperature of the pile at different stages of composting and to record the indicators to be sure that the process will be done correctly. To maintain the correct temperature in the container, you have to mix its components regularly, because it makes it possible to saturate the contents of the container with oxygen and actively work for microorganisms.
Valuable compost should be:
- rich in nutrients,
- homogeneous, structured, friable
- sufficiently moistened (contain 40-60% moisture)
- safe – balanced microflora, free from pathogens, pests and weed seeds
Such properties cannot be achieved if the composting technology is violated. Rapid composting leads to contamination of the field with seeds of unwanted vegetation and an imbalance of microflora with pathogenic organisms. In addition, it is formed in violation of the temperature-time regime and contains a minimum of nutrients due to the incomplete decomposition processes. If the technology was not done properly the compost will be over-moisturized, giving it more weight, which will lead to an increase in logistics costs. If you do not mix the compost thoroughly, it is impossible to achieve its homogeneity and even distribution in the field - due to the heterogeneity of the material, undecomposed plant residues remain. All of this has a direct impact on increasing field diversity in terms of crop yield.
Is compost inoculation necessary?
The conditions and quality of compost processing can be significantly improved with the help of inoculation or colonization of organic waste with natural microorganisms. BTU-CENTER has developed and studied the biological “COMPONAZA” that proved to accelerate composting and improve its nutrition value.
Due to the accelerated decomposition process of organic waste, valuable organic fertilizer can be obtained in 1-1.5 months with the help of an aerator or in 2-2.5 months with the help of a front loader. What is crucial – Componaza proved to contribute in balancing manure microflora. This means that the crops will get safe manure with positive balance of microorganisms. The economic effect of inoculation is that the amount of organic waste is reduced by up to 40%, which significantly reduces the cost of fertilizing the field with compost. After all, the most important result is the enrichment of the soil with nutrients, improving its structure and fertility - a task that all responsible owners are currently working on.
Componaza contains at least 1,0x109 CFU/ml viable, active microorganisms such as Trichoderma, Bacillus subtilis, Rodex, Azotobacter chroococcum, Enterobacter, Enterococcus faecium and others. The result of his work is a fast, safe, humified substrate enriched with useful microflora, macro and micro elements in a form available to plants.
The process of composting is inextricably linked to the process of carbon absorption in the soil. By consuming carbon dioxide, green plants release oxygen into the atmosphere through photosynthesis and bind carbon in their cells. When decomposed by microorganisms, carbon compounds are retained in the soil and converted into soil humus - this is the process of carbon sequestration. Instead, thanks to the selected composition of natural microorganisms in the biological products, organic residues are quickly destroyed and the carbon-containing material obtained is processed. In this way, the carbon is fixed in the compost and then in the soil, which is part of the very important carbon sequestration process of the air-plant-soil CO2 system.
Proven in practice
The effectiveness of high-quality composting with Componaza has been proven through numerous experiments and farmers' practice. Here are some of them.
Sunflower
Location: Myronivsk area, Kyiv region, Ukraine
CONTROL PLOT - compost without Componaza: 9 t/ha
TRIAL PLOT - compost with Componaza (0,2 l/t): 8,6 t/ha
Yield on control plot: 3,80 t/ha
Yield on trial plot: 4,07 t/ha (+0.27 t/ha)
Maize, winter wheat and sugar beat
Location: Cherkasy region, Ukraine
CONTROL PLOT - compost without Componaza
TRIAL PLOT - compost with Componaza
- Winter wheat 5 t/ha
- Corn 7 t/ha
- Sugar beat 7 t/ha
Control | Trial | Increment, t/ha | ||||
Square, ha | Gross yield, t | Yield, t/ha | Square, ha | Gross yield, t | Yield, t/ha | |
Winter wheat | ||||||
40 | 249,6 | 6,24 | 40 | 273,6 | 6,84 | +0,6 |
Corn | ||||||
23 | 209,3 | 9,1 | 40 | 396 | 9,9 | +0,8 |
Sugar beat | ||||||
30 | 1354 | 45,13 | 40 | 1917 | 47,93 | +2,8 |
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