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Evaluation of selected organic fertilizers on conditioning soil health of smallholder households in Karagwe, Northwestern Tanzania
Department of Medical Botany, Plant Breeding, and Agronomy, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, P.O Box 65001, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6941-3140
Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ), DE-14979, Großbeeren, Germany.
Institute of Resource Assessment & Centre for Climate Change Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, P.O Box 33453, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Tema Environmental Change. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research, CSPR.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1156-8748
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2024 (English)In: Heliyon, ISSN 2405-8440, Vol. 10, no 4, article id e26059Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Sustainable development
Fossil fuels, Climate Improvements, Environmental work
Abstract [en]

Soil management is a strategy for improving soil suffering from problems such as low pH, nutrient deficiency, and erosion. The study evaluated the effects of human urine (HU), biogas slurry (BS), standard compost (StC), animal manure (AM), and synthetic fertilizer (SF) in comparison with no soil fertility management (NFM) on soil pH, cation exchange capacity (CEC), soil organic carbon (SOC), soil moisture content, nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), sodium (Na), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), manganese (Mn), and iron (Fe) in the Karagwe district, a Northwestern Tanzania. Four household farms representing each soil amendment type were selected for soil sampling. A total of 192 soil samples were collected and air-dried. After laboratory analysis, BS-enriched soil had the highest pH (6.558), CEC (23.945 cmol+/kg), SOC (5.573%), soil moisture (5.573%), N (0.497%), P (247.130 mg/kg), K (3.036 cmol+/kg), Ca (18.983 cmol+/kg), Mg (4.076 cmol+/kg), Na (2.960 cmol+/kg), and Cu (12.548 mg/kg). Similar soil properties were lower in NFM than in the other soils. The soil properties on the chosen farms did not differ significantly depending on the sampling zone for each organic fertilizer. Therefore, the result indicates that all evaluated organic fertilizers improved soil health compared to NFM, but BS and HU fertilizers led to relatively better soil health improvements than StC, AM, and SF.

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Elsevier, 2024. Vol. 10, no 4, article id e26059
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Organic fertilizers, Soil health, Cation exchange capacity, Soil organic carbon
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-200846DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e26059ISI: 001188900200001PubMedID: 38384502OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-200846DiVA, id: diva2:1836822
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Swedish Research Council Formas, 2019-01973
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Funding: Project "Opening the portfolio of negative emissions technologies: A comprehensive study of social, techno-economic, and ethical dimensions of biomass -based NETs in Sweden and Tanzania" [2019-01973]; Swedish National Research Program on Climate; Swedish Research Council Formas; MAVUNO organization

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