Affiliation:
1. Agricultural Research Center, Egypt
Abstract
The use of different techniques for recycling the orchard's biomass provided more flexibility and efficiency under the different environmental and production conditions. Aerobic composting depending on the decomposition activities of different micro-organisms and the environmental conditions (moisture, temperature, additives, machinery, etc.) was for a long time the main method for recycling the orchard's biomass. Vermicomposting introduced a promising technique for recycling the orchard's biomass depending on vermicomposting earthworm types, which led to not just recycling the orchards biomass but also producing different products (vermicompost, vermi-liquid, and earthworm biomass, feeders, etc.). Anaerobic composting mainly produces energy, as well as composting, and still needs more knowledge transfer. The management of organic soil content is a vital agricultural operation that takes into more consideration increasing the sustainability and the production of orchards as well as sequestrating the carbon dioxide in orchards' soils.
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