ABSTRACT Phosphorus in agriculture is an essential, limited, and strategic resource, and its sustainable management is a global challenge. Phosphorus (P) recovery as struvite (NH4MgPO4.6H2O) from manures and municipal and agro-industrial wastewaters has been considered one of the most sustainable technologies, based on the circular economy, to face challenges regarding P reserves and its use for conventional fertilizer production. Struvite is a slow-release P-fertilizer (5 % N, 12 % P, 10 % Mg), which could significantly reduce the Brazilian dependency […]

ABSTRACT Excessive phosphorus (P) applications can increase nutrient levels in the soil, facilitating its transference to aquatic environments and causing contamination. Thus, the environmental P threshold (P-threshold) is a tool to establish a sound level of P in the soil, in which P values below the threshold are harmless to the environment. This study aimed to establish a P-threshold equation for the soils of Mato Grosso State, Brazil. Twenty samples of representative soils from the main swine production regions of […]

A suinocultura tem como inconveniente a grande produção de dejetos, os quais são reutilizados como fertilizantes agrícolas, porém, se utilizados em doses excessivas, tornam-se severos poluentes ambientais. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar as formas de acumulação de P em um solo submetido a sucessivas aplicações de doses de dejeto líquido de suínos. O experimento foi instalado em 1995, em uma área cultivada com pastagem natural, que recebeu doses de 0, 20 e 40 m3 ha-1 de dejeto líquido de […]