Amendment of soil water retention and nutrients holding capacity by using Sugar Cane Bagasse

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dc.contributor.authorChacha, Mwita Solomon
dc.contributor.authorAndrew, Banyikwa
dc.contributor.authorVegi, Maheswara Rao
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-25T12:15:51Z
dc.date.available2023-05-25T12:15:51Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionFull text article. Also available at http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CARJ.7.2.10en_US
dc.description.abstractSugarcane bagasse (SCB) is byproduct of sugarcane industry can be used as soil amendments to improve soil hydro, physical-chemical characteristics. It also provides reasonable economic means to recycle these in an environmentally friendly manner. The soil samples were studied for different soil characteristics collected from different sites of Dodoma city, Tanzania. Soil sample with poor water holding capacity selected and made into six treatments by different percentages of sugarcane bagasse 0, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 100% in triplicates for each treatment. The result showed that water holding capacity of the soil increased from 26.85 to 84.08 % representing 3.16 times. The soil of Dodoma have low organic matter (438.6 - 1126.6 mg/kg), and deficient in K+ (0.5 cmol/kg), Ca2+ (2.8 cmol/kg), Mg2+ (1.3 mg /kg), Na+ (1.03 cmol/kg) and cation exchange capacity (5 cmol/kg). The available K+ , Ca2+, Mg2+ contents of soil increased by 13.87, 22.79, 33.13 and 43.61% with the application of 2, 5, 10 and 20 % of sugarcane bagasse, respectively. Different levels of SCB positively influence the hydro, physico-chemical properties of soil. Utilization of SCB as organic fertilizer was found to save the water cost and chemical fertilizer along with minimizing environmental pollution. Application of 10% of sugarcane bagasse was found to be the standard dose to achieve important hydo, physico-chemical properties of soil to a required level.en_US
dc.identifier.citationChacha, M. S., Banyikwa, A., & Vegi, M. R. (2019). Amendment of soil water retention and nutrients holding capacity by using sugar cane bagasse. Current Agriculture Research Journal, 7(2), 224-235en_US
dc.identifier.otherDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CARJ.7.2.10
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/4006
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherEnviro Research Publishersen_US
dc.subjectAtomic Absorption Spectrometeren_US
dc.subjectOrganic oarbonen_US
dc.subjectSoil wateren_US
dc.subjectSugarcane bagasseen_US
dc.subjectAtomic absorption spectrometeen_US
dc.subjectSoil water holding capacityen_US
dc.subjectSoil nutrients holding capacityen_US
dc.subjectSoil nutrientsen_US
dc.subjectAtomic absorption spectrometeren_US
dc.subjectSCBen_US
dc.subjectSoil amendmentsen_US
dc.subjectSoil characteristicsen_US
dc.subjectSoil water retentionen_US
dc.subjectWater retentionen_US
dc.subjectSugar caneen_US
dc.titleAmendment of soil water retention and nutrients holding capacity by using Sugar Cane Bagasseen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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