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Comprehensive evaluation of improving effects of different organic wastes on a newly reclaimed cultivated land.

XU Qiu-tong1, KONG Zhang-liang2, ZHANG Ming-kui1*   

  1. (1College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China; 2Agricultural Technology Extension Center of Jiande City, Jiande 311600, Zhejiang, China)
  • Online:2016-02-18 Published:2016-02-18

Abstract: There are many problems such as low soil organic matter, available nutrients and microbial activity, compaction, and poor tillage properties for a newly reclaimed cultivated land, and the establishment of a fast, effective measure for improving soil fertility quality is of importance to enhance the quality and production performance of the newly cultivated land. A field experiment was carried out to observe the effect of organic wastes on soil fertility of a newly reclaimed cultivated land, and compared the differences of different types of urban organic wastes. The field experiment included nine treatments, i.e., pig manure, chicken manure, rice straw, vegetable harvest residue, urban sludge, biogas residue, manure+rice straw compost,  garbage compost and control without organic fertilizer at annual application rate of 30 t·hm-2, and ran for three consecutive years. The results showed that the application of each type of the eight organic wastes had obvious effects on improving soil fertility. Among them, pig manure, chicken manure, pig manure+rice straw compost, rice straw and biogas residue were the most effective to enhance the carbon pool management index of soil. The addition of pig manure+rice straw compost and biogas residue had the best effect on increasing the soil water stable aggregates and decreasing soil bulk density. Sewage sludge, pig manure+rice straw compost and garbage compost could enhance soil water holding capacity. Pig manure, chicken manure and pig manure+rice straw compost had most obvious effect on increasing soil available nutrients. All kinds of organic wastes increased the number of soil microorganisms and the activity of enzymes. There were some risk of soil heavy metals pollution for the longterm application of sludge, garbage compost and manure. However, the impact of shortterm application of the wastes on soil environmental quality was not obvious. Overall, effects of organic wastes on soil fertility decreased in the order of pig manure+rice straw compost>chicken manure>pig manure>biogas residue>garbage compost>rice straw>urban sludge>vegetable harvest residue, and the effects on soil pollution increased in the sequence of rice straw<vegetable harvest residue<pig manure+rice straw compost<biogas residue<chicken manure<pig manure<garbage compost<urban sludge.