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2023 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

17. Soil Nutrient and Management in Oil Palm Plantations and Agronomic Potential of Biochar

Authors : Arasu Uttran, Soh Kheang Loh, Muhammad Ahmad, Robert Thomas Bachman

Published in: Materials and Technologies for Future Advancement

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Abstract

The key problems that the world’s agriculture will confront in the coming decades are adjusting to climate change, using scarce natural resources more effectively while fully recovering biowaste to create a circular economy, and reducing poverty and hunger. Future increases in food consumption will require increased productivity from crops like oil palm. The primary issue is the excessive use of chemical fertilisers, which has an impact on soil fertility, climate, and oil palm productivity. Potentially, converting biowaste, i.e. oil palm biomass, into biochar and applying it as a soil amendment through a proper nutrient management for oil palm cultivation are targeted to improve nutrient use efficiency and crop productivity. The nutrient leaching is influenced by the oil palm root system, fertilizer (solubility) and soil (erosion) characteristics, rainfall pattern, as well as fertilizer application method and the rate should be remediated with biochar-based soil enhancer to accelerate oil palm growth via efficient biochar-fertilizer interaction. Oil palm biomass-to-biochar application in soil retains nutrients, increases water holding capacity and microbial growth response, and improves soil fertility, thus can be a promising and sustainable approach not only in contributing to crop’s enhanced productivity but also mitigating problems of potential pollution associated and disposal for creation of a circular palm oil economy. In the long run, biochar application as a soil amendment can contribute to fertilizer cost reduction which occupies up to 40–45% of the overall field cost in oil palm cultivation.

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Metadata
Title
Soil Nutrient and Management in Oil Palm Plantations and Agronomic Potential of Biochar
Authors
Arasu Uttran
Soh Kheang Loh
Muhammad Ahmad
Robert Thomas Bachman
Copyright Year
2023
Book
Materials and Technologies for Future Advancement

Print ISBN: 978-3-031-38992-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-38993-1

Copyright Year: 2023

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38993-1_17

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