AccScience Publishing / AJWEP / Volume 15 / Issue 1 / DOI: 10.3233/AJW-180011
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Use of Coir Pith as a Soil Amendment Material 

C.R. Sahoo1 B.B. Kar1*
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1 School of Applied Sciences, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar (Odisha), India
AJWEP 2018, 15(1), 97–100; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW-180011
Submitted: 13 April 2017 | Revised: 15 November 2017 | Accepted: 15 November 2017 | Published: 29 January 2018
© 2018 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

 In the present study, an attempt has been made to utilize Coir Pith as a soil amendment material. In this context, laterite soil is taken as the base material and coir pith is added to it externally, with variable ratio to carry out soil fortifications. The major demerit in laterite soil is the presence of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, which are not adequate for any proper plant growth. Thus, there is a need of sufficient amount of fertilizers to be utilized to develop the plant growth. In this context, coir pith waste, which is another agricultural waste, dumped in various areas and in long run creates environmental pollution, has been taken as a medium to enhance the nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium content of the soil. The result revealed that by addition of coir pith waste, it is possible to produce a more fertile soil in which there is almost no need of addition of any fertilizer further.

Keywords
Pollution
potassium
coir pith
amendment
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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