Effect Of Biochar And Other Amendments On The Ph Of Soils Derived From Four Parent Materials In South East Nigeria
ABSTRACT
An incubation
experiment was conducted at the Soil Science and Meteorology laboratory,
Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, to determine the effects of
amendments namely Biochar, Ash and lime applied singly, and in basal
combination with poultry manure, on pH of soils derived from four parent
materials. The parent materials from which the soils were derived are coastal
plain sand, shale, sandstone, and Alluvium. The treatments consisted of Biochar
(B), Hydrated lime (L), Ash (A), Biochar + poultry manure (B+P), Lime + poultry
manure (L+P), and Ash + poultry manure (B+P) applied at 1.43 gkg' representing
2 tons per hectare equivalent. The treatments were assigned to lOOgram of soil
weighed out for the incubation study and were replicated three times in a
completely randomized design. During the 12 weeks of incubation, the effect of
the treatments on soil pH was measured, and all data subjected to analysis of
variance (ANOVA), while the differences between the treatments were tested
using GENSTAT package. The effects of the treatments on soil pH were determined
at 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 weeks using the standard laboratory procedures. The
results obtained from the study showed that at 6 weeks of incubation, the
application of lime and lime + poultry manure significantly (p
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