TY  - JOUR
AV  - none
A1  - Ali, B
A1  - Shah, G A
A1  - Traore, B
A1  - Shah, S A A
A1  - Shah, S S
A1  - Al-Solaimani, S G M
A1  - Hussain, Q
A1  - Ali, N
A1  - Shahzad, K
A1  - Shahzad, T
A1  - Ahmad, A
A1  - Muhammad, S
A1  - Shah, G M
A1  - Arshad, M
A1  - Hussain, R A
A1  - Shah, J A
A1  - Anwar, A
A1  - Amjid, M W
A1  - Rashid, M I
TI  - Manure storage operations mitigate nutrient losses and their products can sustain soil fertility and enhance wheat productivity
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.02.081
JF  - Journal of Environmental Management (TSI)
SN  - 03014797
PB  - Elsevier Ltd
N1  - Authors are thankful to PMAS-Arid Agriculture University
Rawalpindi, Pakistan for providing financial support of this study.
Department of Agronomy, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University
Rawalpindi, Pakistan is equally indebted for providing technical support
during the execution of the experimental and laboratory work. We
also acknowledged the help and support of the Centre of Excellence in
Environmental Studies, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah and Ministry
of Higher Education Commission, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We also
acknowledged three anonymous reviewers for their comments and
suggesions on previous version.
N2  - Livestock manure is a valuable source of nutrients for plants. However, poor handling practices during storage resulted in nutrient losses from the manure and decrement in its nitrogen (N) fertilizer value. We explored the influence of divergent storage methods on manure chemical composition, carbon (C) and N losses to the environment as well as fertilizer value of storage products after their application to the wheat. Fresh buffalo manure (FM) was subjected to different storage operations for a period of ?6 months, (i) fermentation by covering with a plastic sheet (CM) (ii) placed under the roof (RM) (iii) heap was unturned (SM) to remain stacked at an open space and (iv) manure heap turned monthly (TM) to make compost. During storage, 8, 24, 45 and 46% of the initial Ntotal was lost from CM, RM, SM, and TM, respectively. The respective C losses from these treatments were 16, 34, 47 and 44% of the initial C content. After stored manures application to the wheat crop, mineral N in the soil remained 27% higher in CM (14.1 vs. 11.1?kg?ha?1) and 3% (10.8 vs. 11.1?kg?ha?1) lower in SM compared to FM treatment. In contrast, microbial biomass C and N was 35 (509 vs.782?mg?C kg?1 soil) and 25% (278 vs.370?mg?N kg?1 soil) lower in CM than FM treatment, respectively indicating lower N immobilization of CM in the soil. These findings could result in the highest grain yield (5166?kg?ha?1) and N uptake (117?kg?ha?1) in CM and the lowest in SM treatments (3105 and 61?kg?ha?1, respectively). Similarly, wheat crop recovered 44, 15 and 13% N from CM, TM and SM, respectively. Hence, management operations play a critical role in conserving N during storage phase and after stored manure application to the field. Among the studied operations, storing animal manure under an impermeable plastic sheet is a much better and cheaper option for decreasing N losses during storage and improving wheat yield when incorporated into the soil. Therefore, by adopting this manure storage technique, farmers can improve the agro-environmental value of animal manure in Pakistan.
KW  - Anaerobic fermentation
KW  -  Buffalo manure
KW  -  Crop morphological attributes
KW  -  Gaseous losses
KW  - 
Microbial biomass
KW  -  Nitrogen use efficiency
KW  -  Triticum aestivum L
KW  -  Livestock manure
KW  - 
Nitrogen (N) fertilizer
KW  -  animal manure
Y1  - 2019/07//
SP  - 468
ID  - icrisat11234
EP  - 478
VL  - 241
ER  -