Vol.4 No.3 – 8 : Use of Date Palm Leaves with Some Animal feces For Microbial Activity for Bio fertilizer production

By : Abd-El-Rahman Metwaly ^1,2 , Hesham Sayed Ghazzawy ^2,3 , Mohammed Ahmad Bkary ¹, Iheb Chakroun ¹ , Muneeruddin Syed ¹

¹Administration of Prevention & Environmental Health. Al Madinah – Saudi Arabia

²Central Laboratory of Date Palm Researches and Development, Agricultural Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture, Giza, Egypt,

³Date palm Research Center of Excellence, King Faisal University, 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 microbial activity of compost then mixture is incubated according to windrow method. Results are satisfactory and allowed us to obtain natural compost free of micro-organisms with chicken feces (50%) without bakery yeast addition. In addition, sheep feces mixture, with added bakery yeast, gives microbial number decreases with percentage rise of feces.

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