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#6 Joana: designing organic fertilisers by blending animal manures
How can mixing different animal manures together enhance their value and increase their ability to replace mineral fertilisers? Joana is a PhD student at the University of Lisbon and she is part of the EU project Nutri2Cycle. Department and Section: Instituto Superior de Agronomia University supervisor: David Fangueiro, Paula Alvarenga and Henrique Ribeiro Dissertation title: Blending of raw and treated manure to produce bio-based fertiliser Topic – in brief The challenge: manure is rather unpredictable in terms of its fertiliser value whereas farmers can be quite sure about effects and usefulness of mineral fertilisers the nutrient ratio in manures is suboptimal for plant growth: if one applies according to nitrogen,…
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#5 Clara: Biochars & ashes as bio-based fertilisers
How to enhance the plant availability of phosphorus of biowaste-derived biochars and ashes? Clara is a Marie-Curie PhD student at the University of Copenhagen and part of the EU project FertiCycle. She conducts research on biochars and ashes and on how to increase their fertiliser value. Department and Section: Department of Plant and Environmental Science, Soil Fertility Group 1st supervisor: Dorette Müller-Stöver 2nd supervisor: Lars Stoumann Jensen Dissertation title (as for now :D) Enhancement of plant phosphorus availability from biowaste biochars and ashes Topic – in brief Bio-based fertilisers : Enhancing the phosphorous availability from biochar and ashes What is biochar? Similar to coal production: Organic compounds are heated up…
