Research Concerning the Influence of Municipal Sluge from the Water Treatment Station „Tetarom III” Cluj-Napoca Upon The Production of Dry Matter at Alfalfa

  • Iancu PINTEA University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, Cluj-Napoca
  • Roxana VIDICAN University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Timisoara Banat Plant Protection Department
  • Ioan ROTAR University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj Napoca, Grassland and Forage Crops Department, 3-5, Calea Manastur Street, 400372 Cluj
  • Florin PĂCURAR University for Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Calea Mănăştur nr.3-5, RO-400372 Cluj-Napoca
Keywords: municipal sluge, alfalfa, agricol production, natural fertilizer, dry substance, control variant.

Abstract

The goal of this study is to evaluate the possibilities to use the municipal sluge as a fertilizer in agriculture, especially upon alfalfa crop, with a very complex and precise methodology, in the conditions of assuring environment protection and human health integrity. Neutralizing city mud with the help of soil, considered a biological treatment station for water is one of the most important perspectives to protect the environment together with an increase of agricol production. In the new socio economical structures of Romania, the natural fertilizer is to be found less and less due to the decrease of the animal number, and also due to the way of their breeding, and the replacement of natural fertilizer with mud from the used water treatment, it is an alternative to use due to the sure advantages of the fertilized mud appliance. The effect of fertilization with municipal sluge upon the crop of alfalfa was studied within an experiment with eight variants in which there were applied different doses of city mud and natural fertilizer. Due to the appliance of municipal sluge it can be seen an increase of the content of dry matter compared to the control variant (with no fertilizers).
Published
2011-10-11