Effects of Earthworm on Cow Dung and Chicken Manure of the Ratio to the Mineral Elements and Heavy Metals

Abstract World capture fisheries are declining while demand for fish is increasing due to population increase and an upward trend in diet preference where fish is preferred over white meat. It is hoped that aquaculture will help meet this deficit. In Kenya, coastal aquaculture remains under-developed even though over 3900 hectares of land have been designated as suitable for aquaculture. This case study is based on a study where Indian shrimp (Penaeus indicus) were cultured for 106 days, in hapas, inside fertilized ponds at Majaoni in Mtwapa creek, Mombasa district, Kenya. The manures used for pond fertilization were chicken, urea and cow dung. No manure was added in the control treatment. Physical, chemical and biological water parameters were taken weekly, fortnightly and monthly, respectively. Growth performance of the shrimp in terms of weight (g) and length (mm) was monitored fortnightly. The mean growth rates ranged between 1.13 and 2.34% day-1 in the control and chicken manure treated ponds, respectively. The highest net yield (NFY Kg ha-1) and annual production (AP Kg ha-1 yr-1) achieved was 18.87 Kg ha-1 and 64 Kg ha-1 yr-1, respectively, in the cow dung-treated ponds. The data collected from this study formed part of the author's MSc thesis in Aquaculture at the University of Nairobi. A major part of the study was funded by Alcoa Foundation's Conservation and Sustainability Fellowship Program which supported the author as a Practitioner Fellow in 2008. Additional support was provided through the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA) small grant programme.

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Estimation of Some Heavy Metals and Mineral Elements in Tissues of Oreochromis niloticus Collected from Goronyo Dam and its Two Tributaries inNorth-Western Sub-Sahara Nigeria

IOSR Journal of Environmental Science Toxicology and Food Technology ◽

10.9790/2402-0354652 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 3 (5) ◽

pp. 46-52

Author(s):

Muhammad Muhammad

Keyword(s):

Heavy Metals ◽

Oreochromis Niloticus ◽

Mineral Elements

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Exploring the Regulatory Role of Wood Vinegar on Heavy Metals (Copper, Zinc) Before and After Cow Dung Composting

Information Technology Journal ◽

10.3923/itj.2014.2453.2460 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 13 (15) ◽

pp. 2453-2460

Author(s):

Zhiyu Li ◽

Ling Zhou ◽

Fei Liu ◽

Xuening Luo ◽

Jinlong Sun ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Heavy Metals ◽

Regulatory Role ◽

Cow Dung ◽

Wood Vinegar ◽

Before And After ◽

Copper Zinc

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Roles of adding biochar and montmorillonite alone on reducing the bioavailability of heavy metals during chicken manure composting

Bioresource Technology ◽

10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122199 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 294 ◽

pp. 122199 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Jingkun Hao ◽

Zimin Wei ◽

Dan Wei ◽

Taha Ahmed Mohamed ◽

Huimin Yu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Heavy Metals ◽

Chicken Manure

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PRODUCTIVITY OF PINTO BEANS (Arachis pintoi) WITH DIFFERENT TYPES AND DOSAGE OF ORGANIC FERTILIZER

Majalah Ilmiah Peternakan ◽

10.24843/mip.2019.v22.i02.p08 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 84

Author(s):

Witariadi N. M. ◽

N. N. Candraasih K.

Keyword(s):

Organic Fertilizer ◽

Weight Ratio ◽

Dry Weight ◽

Organic Fertilizers ◽

Chicken Manure ◽

Cow Dung ◽

Arachis Pintoi ◽

Randomized Design ◽

Pinto Beans ◽

Leaf Dry Weight

The study aims to determine the productivity of pinto beans (Arachis pintoi) which is fertilized with differenttypes of organic fertilizer including its dosage. The study was conducted by using a completely randomized design(CRD) within two patterns of factors. Firstly, organic fertilizers are cow dung (S) and chicken manure (A). Secondly,dosages without fertilizer (D0), 15 tons/ha dosages (D1), 20 tons/ha dosages (D2), dosage of 25 tons/ha (D3); anddosage of 30 tons/ ha (D4) of organic fertilizers. The variables observed were plant height, number of branches,number of leaves, leaf dry weight, stem dry weight, total forage dry weight, leaf areat and leaf dry weight ratio withstem dry weight. The results showed no interaction between the type and dosage of fertilizer in which the growthand production of pinto beans (Arachis pintoi) gave the same results by fertilizing with 25-30 tons/ha dosagesof chicken manure. It can be concluded that increasing the productivity of pinto beans (Arachis pintoi) can befertilized with 25-30 tons/ha dosages of chicken manure

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Earthworm Processing of Livestock Manure and Accumulation of Heavy Metals

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.573-574.1129 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 573-574 ◽

pp. 1129-1133 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ji Cai Qiu

Keyword(s):

Heavy Metals ◽

Heavy Metal ◽

Organic Waste ◽

Cow Dung ◽

Optimum Conditions ◽

Metal Enrichment ◽

Heavy Metal Elements ◽

Enrichment Techniques ◽

Animal Feces ◽

Strong Ability

The earthworm is an omnivorous animal low saprophytic, has a strong ability to decompose organic waste. The earthworm can directly grows on dung, consume a large amount of organic waste, numerous research reports, earthworm on heavy metal elements have very strong enrichment. Therefore, the use of earthworms as a bioreactor for animal feces, excessive heavy metals to biological concentration, reduce the content of heavy metals in animal feces, is a task that is worth to discuss. Taking the rural animal feces in the largest number, the most widely distributed of cow dung as study objects, to carry out the earthworm absorption in cow dung, Zn Pb Cu, the study of the optimum conditions for the further study of Earthworm on cattle manure, heavy metal enrichment techniques provide a basis.

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Assessment of mineral elements and heavy metals in leaves of indigenous cypress of High Atlas Mountains

Natural Product Research ◽

10.1080/14786419.2014.974052 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 29 (8) ◽

pp. 764-767 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

M.Y. Arjouni ◽

M.A. Bennouna ◽

M.A. El Alaoui El Fels ◽

A. Romane

Keyword(s):

Heavy Metals ◽

Mineral Elements ◽

High Atlas ◽

Atlas Mountains ◽

High Atlas Mountains

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Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Tani melalui Penerapan Sistem Pertanian Terpadu di Nagari Singkarak, Kecamatan X Koto Singkarak, Kabupaten Solok

Agrokreatif Jurnal Ilmiah Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat ◽

10.29244/agrokreatif.1.2.127-135 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 127

Author(s):

Delvi Yanti ◽

Mislaini Rahman

Keyword(s):

Farming System ◽

Chicken Manure ◽

Cow Dung ◽

Target Groups ◽

Particle Composition ◽

Integrated Farming ◽

Media Source ◽

Quality Of Outcome ◽

The Media

The objectives of KKN-PPM activity are: 1) The method of utilizing the wastes of agriculture and stock husbandry as the media source of production oriented at the quality of outcome and the preservation of environment; and 2) The formation of sustainable integrated farming centers. The methods of activity applied are participation and action that involve the groups of target society and students who act as the facilitators. This activity was followed by 28 students partnering with <em>Cimpago Putih</em> farmer group. The results achieved on this activity are that the target groups have understood the method of utilizing the wastes of agriculture and stock husbandry, and together with the students made the demonstration plot of integrated farming system. The results achieved on each demonstration plot are: 1) The demonstration plot of mina paddy namely the growths of paddy and fish that look good; 2) The demonstration plot of combining fishery and stock husbandry, namely to decrease the contamination of environment by chicken manure; 3) The demonstration plot of biogas made of cow dung, namely gas (formed after 20 days from the first refill) and liquid compost (the sludge of biogas by-product) with the particle composition of nitrogen (2.59%), phosphor (0.022%), and kalium (4.01%); 4) The demonstration plot of compost from the waste of agriculture namely solid compost (straw and kirinyuh) with the particle composition of nitrogen, phosphor, and kalium are 2.14, 0.407, and 1.79%; and 5) the demonstration plot of cultivation and processing of forage namely the better growth of elephant grass with the ratio of alive and dead elephant of 30:1 and the paddy straw of ammoniation (the smell of ammonia, the color of brown green, and none fungus).

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KEHILANGAN NITROGEN PADA SISTEM USAHATANI JAGUNG MANIS DI LAHAN GAMBUT KALIMANTAN TENGAH (Nitrogen Lost on Sweet Corn Of Peatland Farming System in Central Kalimantan)

AgriPeat ◽

10.36873/agp.v19i01.156 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (01) ◽

pp. 51-58

Author(s):

Administrator Journal

Keyword(s):

Total Nitrogen ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Sweet Corn ◽

Nitrogen Loss ◽

Peat Soil ◽

Farming System ◽

Chicken Manure ◽

Cow Dung ◽

Total Nitrogen Loss ◽

Npk Fertilizer

ABSTRACTApplication of fertilizer can increase nitrogen loss in agricultural land in the form of leaching andvolatilization. Research carried out on peat soil, done two times planting. First in the dry season totransition with nitrogen input from urea fertilizer, cow dung manure and from rainfall. Both areimplemented in the month of transition to the rainy season with nutrient input from nitrogen derivedfrom pearl NPK fertilizer, chicken manure and rainfall. Nitrogen washing is obtained frompercolation water which is accommodated by lysimeter. The volume of percolation water measuredat plant age 15, 30, 45 HST and at harvest, N content in laboratory analysis. The purpose of thisresearch is to know total nitrogen loss and efficiency level of sweet corn farming system inpeatland. Nitrogen washing in the first study was 2.28 kg N ha-1 or 2.49% and in the second studywas 8.95 kg N ha-1 or 13.65%. The other estimated loss of volatilization in the first study was 12.80Kg N ha-1 or 13.97% and in the second study it was 6.76 Kg N ha-1 or 10.31%. Average lossestimated volatilization of 9.78 kg N ha-1 or 12.45% Total nitrogen loss of 19.60%, so that sweetcorn farming system on peatlands in Kalampangan Urban Palangkaraya is classified as inefficientKeywords: Nitrogen, Sweet Corn, Peat Land

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Distribution and Dispersion of Heavy Metals in the Rock–soil–moss System in Areas Covered by Black Shale in the Southeast of Guizhou Province, China

10.21203/rs.3.rs-206352/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Yiyuan Xu ◽

Ruidong Yang ◽

Jian Zhang ◽

Lei Gao ◽

Xinran Ni

Keyword(s):

Heavy Metals ◽

Black Shale ◽

Road Construction ◽

Mineral Elements ◽

Black Shales ◽

Guizhou Province ◽

Icp Ms ◽

Parent Rocks ◽

Exclusion Mechanism ◽

Positive Correlations

Abstract Black shales are easily exposed duo to human activities such as mining, road construction, and shale gas development, which results in several environmental issues including heavy metals (HMs) pollution, soil erosion and the destruction of vegetation. Moss are widely used to monitor metal pollution in the atmosphere, but few studies on the distribution and dispersion of HMs in the rock – soil – moss system are available. Here, mosses (P. flexuosa Harv), growing soils, and corresponding parent rocks were collected from black shale areas. After appropriate pretreatment, samples were analyzed for multiple elements concentration by ICP-AES and ICP-MS. The results show that black shales parent rocks have elevated HMs concentration, and act as a source of multiple metals. Soil significantly inherit and accumulate heavy metals released from black shale. Significant positive correlations between HMs in P. flexuosa Harv and the growing soils indicate that HMs are mainly originating from geological source rather than atmospheric deposition. Compared with other elements, only the transfer factor (TF) of Cd is greater than 1, the normal functioning of mineral elements (K and Zn) absorption and transportation may contribute to its high tolerance to Cd. Finally, both the BCF and TF for most HMs in P. flexuosa Harv are less than 1, indicated that it has a tolerance and exclusion mechanism for these metals. Therefore, the luxuriant and spontaneous growth of P. flexuosa Harv could be used as a phytostabilization pioneer plant in the black shale outcrop where vascular plants are rare.

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