2013wastemanagementjudges 2013wastemanagementjudges Jul 9, 2013 06:04
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Congratulations, your proposal has been named a finalist in the Climate CoLab Waste management contest. You have until July 20th to edit your proposal. The Judges suggest that you focus your edits in the areas listed below.
This proposal targets an appropriate level of technology for Bangladeshi agriculture and should increase cotton yields. It appears to have been well researched and tried. It uses a clever technique to enable transport of the poultry waste.
The proposal could be enhanced by addressing two areas in more depth:
- What is the potential magnitude of the program if it were to achieve scale? What share of the cotton industry’s fertilizer needs could it meet?
- Would would be the rough funding required to launch the program and get it to scale? What would be the business model? Could it scale on a purely commercial basis? or would it require start up funds from a donor?
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Md. Kamrul Islam Jul 13, 2013 12:04
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1. As a complimentary of 2012-2013 research findings, for this year (2013-2014) an experiment was designed to know at what extent the inorganic N application rate can be reduced by applying poultry manure. The experiment protocol is as follows:
Title: Effect of organic and inorganic sources of N on cotton yield
Objectives: To know at what extent the inorganic N application rate can be reduced by using poultry manure.
Treatments:
T1- 100% N from Urea
T2- 90% N from Urea + 10% N from Poultry Manure
T3- 80% N from Urea + 20% N from Poultry Manure
T4- 70% N from Urea + 30% N from Poultry Manure
T5- 60% N from Urea + 40% N from Poultry Manure
Design: RCBD
Replication: 4
Locations: 3 Agro-ecological Zone in Bangladesh viz. Sreepur, Gazipur; Sadarpur, Dinajpur and Jagadishpur, Jessore.
Sources of fund: This experiment will be carried out with the fund from the Cotton Research Program of Cotton Development Board under the Ministry of Agriculture, Bangladesh.
2. The proposed research program is the 3rd step of this initiative. As it is expected that at the end of this year the combined rate of poultry manure and inorganic fertilizer will be identified.
Cotton Development Board (CDB), an organization of the Bangladesh Government, is responsible for cotton extension, research, marketing and providing training and logistic support to the cotton farmers in Bangladesh. I have been working at the Cotton Research, Training and Seed Multiplication Farm of CDB. While the large scale composting of poultry manure is done by a private company that is used in this experiment.
For transferring the generated technology at farmers field, we need pelleted compost and its importance was described in the proposal. For wider application of this project, collaboration from donor is highly desirable to link the research institute with private sector and cotton farmers.
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Md. Kamrul Islam Jul 13, 2013 01:21
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3. The current recommended rate of N in cotton is 175 kg Urea/ha for a growing season (july/August- December/January) in Bangladesh.
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Md. Kamrul Islam Jul 16, 2013 03:04
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In our country,Bangladesh, technology generation as well as dissemination of generated technology through demonstration plot, training etc are done by a public institute like Cotton Research, Training and Seed Multiplication Farm. Once while the generated technology is widely accepted than it is open for both public and private company use.
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2013wastemanagementjudges 2013wastemanagementjudges Jul 31, 2013 02:02
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This project is well researched and seems to be soundly based. It utilizes a local waste that would otherwise become a pollutant into a productive product. None of the technology seems out of range for the people who would be doing this. Assume that the manure could be solar dried before forming into pellets to further reduce weight--this could be clarified. Could other high nitrogen parts of the chickens, such as feathers, be ground and used as well?
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Md. Kamrul Islam Aug 1, 2013 11:50
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A. Presently, the composting of poultry manure has been doing in a store house in batch method to protect it from rainfall or any other direct climatic hazards. We do not have study result on the impact of solar drying on the poultry manure nutrient quality. We will design another experiment to optimize the solar drying process using low cost solar drier infrastructure to know the duration of drying period considering the seasonal variation of radiation hour.
B. In Bangladesh, we do not have chiken slaughter house like Europe. Chicken is raring in a poultry industry, while it is sold in local market as live broiler. In some cases, retailer dressed it and otherwise, consumer buy a live broiler to take it home. Thus, to take chiken feathers, we need to organize a separate project and it is possible to collect feather from the retailer.
C. The Laboratory analytical results of the physico-chemical properties of poultry manure used in our experiment are given below:
1. Color = Grey
2. Physical conditions = Non-Granular
3. Odour = Absence of foul odour
4. Moisture = 22.1%
5. pH= 8.5
6. Organic Carbon= 19.7%
7. Total Nitrogen (N) = 2.52%
8. C:N = 7.8:1
9. Phosphorus (P) = 1.9%
10. Potassium (K) = 1.14%
11. Sulphur (S) = 0.33%
12. Zinc (Zn) = 0.02%
13. Copper (Cu) = 0.003%
14. Chromium (Cr) = 0.99 ppm
15. Cadmium (Cd) = 0.59 ppm
16. Lead (Pb)= 0.99 ppm
17. Nickel (Ni) = 1.02 ppm
18. Inert material <1%
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