Use of Date Palm Leaves with Some Animal feces For Microbial Activity for Biofertilizer production

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Administration of Prevention & Environmental Health. Al Madinah - Saudi Arabia/Central Laboratory of Date Palm Researches and Development, Agricultural Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture, Giza, Egypt,

2 2Central Laboratory of Date Palm Researches and Development, Agricultural Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture, Giza, Egypt/ Date Palm Research Center of Excellence, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

3 Administration of Prevention & Environmental Health. Al Madinah - Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Production of compost using non-invested palm residues leads to organic products that improve the productivity of arable land. The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of concentrations of different animal feces with plant palm leaves on microbial activity. Samples of palm leaves and animal feces of camels, sheep, and chickens were collected and blended. Water and bakery yeast was added to improve the microbial activity of compost then the mixture is incubated according to the windrow method. Results are satisfactory and allowed us to obtain natural compost free of micro-organisms with chicken feces (50%) without bakery yeast addition. Besides, sheep feces mixture, with added bakery yeast, gives microbial number decreases with percentage rise of feces.

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