Evaluation of organic composts from banana and coffee straw agroindustry waste.
Residue; Tomato; Substrate.
In practice, composting is one of the forms of waste recycling, which transforms organic waste with unpleasant characteristics such as odor or appearance, especially organic waste into compost, which is an agricultural input with a pleasant odor and free from pathogenic microorganisms. In the search for an alternative to the residues of the banana pulp agroindustry, a material with high levels of minerals, especially nitrogen and phosphorus, which, if disposed of at random, represent an environmental problem because of its high levels of starch and water, in association with coffee husk, a by-product resulting from the cleaning process of the beans, these residues are currently not being disposed of correctly, due to the lack of a method for reusing such residues. And because these residues from the banana agroindustry are abundant and with great availability, as well as the leftovers from the coffee cleaning processes, in the municipality of Pedralva-MG, this study aimed to evaluate the use of organic residues from the agroindustry processing bananas and husks. coffee with addition of pine wood shavings and chicken litter, evaluating the main characteristics after 120 days and verifying the performance of the compost in the composition of substrates, used in different proportions with carbonized rice husk compared to commercial substrate, in the production of seedlings of tomatoes grown in an organic system, after this period the compost with 75% compost 25% rice husk was shown in an experiment with tomato seedlings as a promising substrate and can be used as organic fertilizer and also be used with family farmers for the production of an organic and low-cost fertilizer.