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Pingtung, Taiwan.
Odette Varela Milla
Wu-Jang Huang PhD.
Contents:
Objectives
Introduction
Characteristics of carbonized rice residues
Biochar preparation and characterization
Scanning electron microscopy analysis
Water spinach
Worm avoidance test
Soil
Application of rice husk biochar and wood
biochar to soil
Results
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Objectives:
Realize an investigation of the short-term effects
related to slow pyrolysis biochar effects in plant
growth.
Furthermore it is planned to determine biochar
characteristics such as biodegradability, porosity and
cation exchange capacity, produced from agricultural
waste.
The use of rice straw and rice husk has been practiced for a long
time (Ponamperuma, 1982; Eagle et al., 2000; Singh et al., 2008;
Kaewpradit et al., 2009).
Source: http://www.fao.org/corp/statistics/en/
Hectares
200000
150000
0.64%
0.34%
100000
99.36%
99.66%
99.86%
50000
0.54%
0
Organic (ha)
No organic (ha)
99.46%
Rice
3.34%
96.66%
Fruits
Tea
949.44
Vegetable
s
518.43
295.52
139.84
Others
crops
453.1
147081.56
151573.57
215067.48
25647.16
13107.9
Source: Organization of certification Agriculture and Food Agency ,Council of Agriculture. 2009
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12
13
14
1.10 m
1.94 m
Water spinach
Water convolvulus has been widely grown throughout the world. It is
found in South and Southeast Asia, Tropical Africa, South
America, and Oceania (Wenfang, 1997). However, it is only in south
and Southeast Asia that it is an important leafy vegetable.
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0804.htm
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http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/esdb_archive/eudasm/asia/maps/TW3000_1SO.htm
Soil
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20
Soil preparation
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Morphology
Leaf number
Leaf length and wide
Stem size
Stem number
Root size
Weight
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Results:
Water spinach plants for all of the considered treatments were
harvested after 8 weeks.
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27
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Statistical analysis
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Rice husk
Wood
Leaf number
40
30
20
10
Rice husk
Wood
3
160
20
15
10
5
0
120
Rice husk
Wood
100
80
160
60
140
40
120
20
100
80
0
60
Rice husk
Wood
Treatments
140
Treatments
40
20
0
Treatments
Treatments
31
Rice husk
Wood
3.5
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
Rice husk
Wood
0.5
0.0
5
200
Treatments
Stem size (mm)
Stem number
3.0
150
100
50
0
Treatments
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Randomly
we
choose
water
spinach
plants
from
each
treatment, T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, treated with each one of the biochars.
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Rice Husk
Wood
150
100
50
Treatments
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Rice Husk
Wood
0.6
Weight (kg)
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0.0
Treatments
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37
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Conclusions
Rice husk biochar showed better holding capacity than wood
based biochar, due to the differences in their particle size, rice
husk biochar was able to integrate better into soil making the
distribution more uniform.