What is it about?
The grey water generated from households constitutes the major portion of domestic wastewater with higher nutritive value. Reuse and recycling of grey water save natural water resources require for irrigation and moreover greywater use would be an added advantage to increase in the biomass due to its nutritive quality.
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Why is it important?
An experimental trial has been done for comparison of SRICPS biomass production within treatment (fertigated with greywater) and control (irrigated with bore well water) plots for biomass growth rate, biomass deficit and estimation of actual and potential biomass productivity with fertigation and control irrigation in same environmental condition by planting Eucalyptus hybrid (clone K‐413).
Perspectives
Eucalyptus hybrid (clone K‐413) above ground biomass (AGBM) production per tree was observed to be 34.19 kg tree−1 in treatment plots as compared to 25.69 kg tree−1 in control plots during initial 2‐year of field observation and it envisages higher economic returns by fertigation due to higher biomass production per unit area as compared to control irrigation.
Dr Anil Kumar Shankhwar
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
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This page is a summary of: Biomass production through grey water fertigation in eucalyptus hybrid and its economic significance, Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy, March 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/ep.11968.
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