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Producing manure-based fertilizers (MBFs) with specific nutrient ratios is a solution to
overpassing the imbalance of nitrogen and phosphorus in manures, and a way to recycle manure’s
nutrients, promoting sustainable agricultural practices. Several MBFs with different tailored N:P
ratios (0.5:1, 1:1 and 2:1) were produced to determine their agronomic value in a pot experiment
with oat (0.5:1 ratio: cattle manure with pig slurry (CaM+PiS), cattle manure with poultry manure
(CaM+PoM) and poultry manure with superphosphate (PoM+SP); 1:1 ratio: poultry manure with
cattle slurry (PoM+CaS) and poultry manure with pig slurry (PoM+PiS); 2:1 ratio: cattle slurry
with the liquid fraction of cattle slurry (CaS+CaS-LIQ), pig slurry with the liquid fraction of pig
slurry (PiS+PiS-LIQ) and poultry manure with urea (PoM+U)). The performance of these MBFs was
compared with conventional mineral fertilizers (MFs) in sandy soils (Haplic Arenosols) with different
nutrient requirements. Oat fertilized with PoM+SP (0.5:1) and PoM+PiS (1:1) led to yields similar
to those obtained with the use of MFs (6.3 and 7.2 mg DM, respectively). The MBFs PoM+SP and
PoM+PiS, as well as PiS+PiS-LIQ (2:1), were agronomically equivalent to the MFs. N uptake with
those MBFs was equivalent to that obtained with the MFs. Replacing MFs with MBFs in the basal
fertilization of oat was demonstrated to be a solution to turn agriculture more sustainable by recycling
nutrients efficiently
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Keywords
manure-based fertilizer tailored N:P ratio N uptake P uptake sustainable agriculture
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Prado, J.; Fangueiro, D.; Alvarenga, P.; Ribeiro, H. Assessment of the agronomic value of manure-based fertilizers. Agronomy 2023, 13, 140.
Publisher
MDPI