Insitu management of sugarcane trashes to enrich

soil available nutrients for sustainability

Project Number :NRM/CBE/ENS/SUG/2015/001

Project leader: J. Kannan, Professor (ENS)

Project Duration: Two years.

Date of start: June, 2015

Date of closure: May, 2017

 Objectives

• Developing techniques for insitu management

of sugarcane trashes under simulated
condition.
• To develop a commercial kit for the insitu
composting of sugarcane trashes.
• To study the nutrient release pattern from the
sugarcane trashes due to the addition of
natural activators of microbes.
 First year (2015-16)
Tray experiment for decomposition of sugarcane trashes.
Treatments
• T1 - Control
• T2- Cow dung slurry 250kg t-1.
• T3- TNAU biomineralizer 2 kg t-1.
• T4- EM solution 2 lit t-1.
• T5 - SRS mixture 100kg t-1. (5:4:1 ratio of Rock phosphate:
Gypsum: Urea)
• T6- Cowdung slurry 250kg t-1.+ SRS mixture 100kg t-1.
• T7- TNAU biomineralizer 2 kg t-1.+ SRS mixture 100kg t-1.
• T8- EM solution 2 lit t-1+ SRS mixture 100kg t-1.
Result: The treatments T7 and T8 performed better than other
treatments.
 Second year ( 2016-17)
One field experiment was conducted at Sugarcane
Research Station, Cuddalore
Treatments
• T1 -Control
• T2- SRS mixture 100kg t-1. (5:4:1 ratio of Rock
phosphate: Gypsum: Urea)
• T3- Cowdung slurry 250kg t-1.+ SRS mixture
100kg t-1.
• T4- TNAU biomineralizer 2 kg t-1.+ SRS mixture
100kg t-1.
• T5 - EM solution 2 lit t-1+ SRS mixture 100kg t-1.
 Characteristics of sugarcane trashes
Treat Total carbon % Total Nitrogen % C:N ratio
ments
Initial After After Initial After After Initial After After
30 days 60 days 30 days 60 days 30 days 60 days

T1 40.72 33.70 22.93 0.58 0.72 0.98 70.2 46.8 23.4

T2 27.72 19.79 0.83 1.02 33.4 19.4

T3 26.29 21.12 0.84 1.10 31.3 19.2

T4 28.13 21.80 0.98 1.26 28.7 17.3

T5 28.03 21.20 0.96 1.24 29.2 17.1

 Salient findings for the project

• TreatmentsT4 -TNAU biomineralizer 2kg t-1.+

SRS mixture 100kg t-1. and
• T5 - EM solution 2 lit t-1+ SRS mixture
100kg t-1, performed well by the quicker
decomposition of sugarcane trashes