An evaluation of Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) biochar and EFB compost as growing media for oil palm seedling / Muhammad Syafiq Ahmad Dani

Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) is usually use as mulching material in oil palm plantation sector for new transplanted seedling since it shows good characteristic in conserve soil moisture and contain high nutrient. The nutrient content has been improved in compost process through anaerobic respiration and...

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Main Author:	Ahmad Dani, Muhammad Syafiq
Format:	Student Project
Published:	Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology 2018
Subjects:	S Agriculture (General) Fertilizers and improvement of the soil Seed growing. Seed farms
Online Access:	http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22735/

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spelling	uitm-227352019-05-10T08:04:34Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22735/ An evaluation of Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) biochar and EFB compost as growing media for oil palm seedling / Muhammad Syafiq Ahmad Dani Ahmad Dani, Muhammad Syafiq S Agriculture (General) Fertilizers and improvement of the soil Seed growing. Seed farms Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) is usually use as mulching material in oil palm plantation sector for new transplanted seedling since it shows good characteristic in conserve soil moisture and contain high nutrient. The nutrient content has been improved in compost process through anaerobic respiration and biochar process through pyrolysis. This advantages has been seen have a potential to be growing media for oil palm seedling in pre-nursery. This study was aim to evaluate the suitability of EFB compost and EFB biochar as growing media and to determine the optimum ratio of EFB compost and EFB biochar as a growing media. This study was carried out by applied different ratio of EFB biochar and EFB compost (0:0, 1:4, 2:3, 3:2, 4:1, 5:0) in pre-nursery oil palm seedling stage. Growth performance of oil palm seedling were measured on weekly basis while soil properties and nutrient content in plant tissues were analysed at the end of experiment. Result showed there were no significant different in growth performance for 10 weeks through statistical analysis but T1 (1:4) was highest growth performance determined through field observation. The soil properties showed pH was improved from acidic (pH 4.0) to desired pH for plant uptake by adding EFB compost and EFB biochar. The available of P, K, Ca and Mg increased by adding EFB compost. The soil properties showed available P, K, Ca and Mg was high for T1 (1:4) and pH for T1 was optimum range (pH 6.0-7.0), in the same time indicate T1 was the most optimum ratio as growing media. Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology 2018 Student Project NonPeerReviewed Ahmad Dani, Muhammad Syafiq (2018) An evaluation of Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) biochar and EFB compost as growing media for oil palm seedling / Muhammad Syafiq Ahmad Dani. [Student Project] (Unpublished)
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topic	S Agriculture (General) Fertilizers and improvement of the soil Seed growing. Seed farms
spellingShingle	S Agriculture (General) Fertilizers and improvement of the soil Seed growing. Seed farms Ahmad Dani, Muhammad Syafiq An evaluation of Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) biochar and EFB compost as growing media for oil palm seedling / Muhammad Syafiq Ahmad Dani
description	Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) is usually use as mulching material in oil palm plantation sector for new transplanted seedling since it shows good characteristic in conserve soil moisture and contain high nutrient. The nutrient content has been improved in compost process through anaerobic respiration and biochar process through pyrolysis. This advantages has been seen have a potential to be growing media for oil palm seedling in pre-nursery. This study was aim to evaluate the suitability of EFB compost and EFB biochar as growing media and to determine the optimum ratio of EFB compost and EFB biochar as a growing media. This study was carried out by applied different ratio of EFB biochar and EFB compost (0:0, 1:4, 2:3, 3:2, 4:1, 5:0) in pre-nursery oil palm seedling stage. Growth performance of oil palm seedling were measured on weekly basis while soil properties and nutrient content in plant tissues were analysed at the end of experiment. Result showed there were no significant different in growth performance for 10 weeks through statistical analysis but T1 (1:4) was highest growth performance determined through field observation. The soil properties showed pH was improved from acidic (pH 4.0) to desired pH for plant uptake by adding EFB compost and EFB biochar. The available of P, K, Ca and Mg increased by adding EFB compost. The soil properties showed available P, K, Ca and Mg was high for T1 (1:4) and pH for T1 was optimum range (pH 6.0-7.0), in the same time indicate T1 was the most optimum ratio as growing media.
format	Student Project
author	Ahmad Dani, Muhammad Syafiq
author_facet	Ahmad Dani, Muhammad Syafiq
author_sort	Ahmad Dani, Muhammad Syafiq
title	An evaluation of Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) biochar and EFB compost as growing media for oil palm seedling / Muhammad Syafiq Ahmad Dani
title_short	An evaluation of Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) biochar and EFB compost as growing media for oil palm seedling / Muhammad Syafiq Ahmad Dani
title_full	An evaluation of Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) biochar and EFB compost as growing media for oil palm seedling / Muhammad Syafiq Ahmad Dani
title_fullStr	An evaluation of Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) biochar and EFB compost as growing media for oil palm seedling / Muhammad Syafiq Ahmad Dani
title_full_unstemmed	An evaluation of Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) biochar and EFB compost as growing media for oil palm seedling / Muhammad Syafiq Ahmad Dani
title_sort	evaluation of empty fruit bunch (efb) biochar and efb compost as growing media for oil palm seedling / muhammad syafiq ahmad dani
publisher	Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology
publishDate	2018
url	http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22735/
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An evaluation of Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB) biochar and EFB compost as growing media for oil palm seedling / Muhammad Syafiq Ahmad Dani

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