Aims: The objective of this work was to evaluate the physical and biological characteristics of the substrates formulated from organic compost (OC), carbonized rice husk (CRH), sewage sludge (SS) and commercial substrate, as well as the vegetative development of lettuce seedlings...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAHR/2018/40262
Aims: The objective of this work was to evaluate the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of the substrates formulated from carbonized rice husk, industrial sludge, vermiculite, soil and commercial substrate, as well as the development of arugula seedlings cultured i...
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Research Article10.9734/AJSSPN/2017/38822
The use of Glyphosate herbicide is the best way to control weed growing when cultivating genetically modified soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] resistant to glyphosate (N-phosphono-methyl-glycine) (GR). However, there have been doubts about the safety of this herbicide use concern...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2016/22186
The agricultural use of sewage sludge have been presented as an alternative both to reduce the volume of this environmental liability as to obtain a product to be used in agricultural soils as fertilizer. However, when the household sewage is also composed of water from the indus...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2016/22570
Sewage sludge is a residue rich in organic matter and nutrients important for plant growth and soil fertility, but it may contain in its composition heavy metals that can result in toxicity to the plant, soil and humans when used as fertilizer. The objective was to assess microbi...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/21730