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Sustainable Release of Macronutrients to Black Oat and Maize Crops from Organically-Altered Dacite Rock Powder

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By-products from the dairy industry and mining activities represent a great environmental overload, which justify research for value-added reuse of these by-products (dairy sludge and dacite rock powder). Dairy sludge is generated at a rate of about 0.2–10 l per liter of processed milk, and dacite powder, from rock mining extraction and processing, is generated for about 52,400 m3 per year in Nova Prata city, Southern Brazil. For both by-products, the compositions of calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), potassium (K) and phosphorous (P), arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), mercury (Hg), and lead (Pb) were determined by using appropriate analytical techniques. A greenhouse experiment was conducted to determine release of macronutrients, such as Ca, K, Mg, and P, from by-products to support black oat (Avena strigosa) and maize nutrition. Twelve by-products doses were blended with a typic Hapludox soil and were applied to pots with five replications each. Black oat (first cultivation) and, sequentially, maize (second cultivation) were cultivated for 70 days each. Ameliorations in soil chemical attributes, leaf dry matter yield, and plant nutritional status were evaluated at the end of each cultivation. There was a significant (p < 0.05) increase in all parameters evaluated in a dose of 7251 kg ha−1 of dacite rock powder and 20,594 kg ha−1 of dairy sludge. Compared to the control treatments, both crops grew well better on all mixtures. The presence of potentially toxic elements in both by-products was irrelevant, indicating that effective blending of dacite rock powder along with dairy sludge could be a potential source of Ca, K, Mg, and P in agriculture without posing a risk of contamination to the environment.

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universidad de La Costa, Calle 58 #55-66, Barranquilla, Colombia

    Claudete Gindri Ramos & Luis Felipe Silva Oliveira

  2. Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul (UFRGS), Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500 Prédio 75, Sala 122, Campus do Vale, Porto Alegre, RS, 91501-970, Brazil

    Adilson Celimar Dalmora

  3. Universidade La Salle, Mestrado Em Avaliação de Impactos Ambientais, Victor Barreto, 2288 Centro, Canoas, RS, 92010-000, Brazil

    Rubens Muller Kautzmann

  4. Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, 2540 Research Park Drive, Lexington, KY, 40511, USA

    James Hower

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    James Hower

  6. Chemical Engineering Department, Federal University of Santa Maria-UFMS, 1000 Roraima Avenue, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil

    Guilherme Luiz Dotto

  7. Departamento de Ingeniería Civil y Arquitectura, Universidad de Lima, Avenida Javier Prado Este 4600, Santiago de Surco, 1503, Peru

    Luis Felipe Silva Oliveira

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Ramos, C.G., Dalmora, A.C., Kautzmann, R.M. et al. Sustainable Release of Macronutrients to Black Oat and Maize Crops from Organically-Altered Dacite Rock Powder. Nat Resour Res 30, 1941–1953 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11053-021-09862-0

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