PMC:7551562 / 22061-23119 JSONTXT

{"target":"http://pubannotation.org/docs/sourcedb/PMC/sourceid/7551562","sourcedb":"PMC","sourceid":"7551562","source_url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/7551562","text":"Proximate analysis is a quantitative analysis used to determine the different macro and micro nutrients components in organic material ( Ekwuabu et al., 2016). In this study. mineral nutrient content of phosphate, nitrogen, and potassium was determined by ascorbic, Kjeldahl and the Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy‎ (AAS) methods respectively. While the total organic carbon (TOC) was also determined in each compound according to ASTM, 2000 Ekwuabu et al. (2016). The agrowaste material being analysed are corn chaff for TOC, corn steep liquor for Nitrate-Nitrogen, poultry droppings for phosphorus content, and plantain peels for potassium. Corn (IT 45) and Plantain (IT 09) were sourced from International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) while poultry droppings were freshly ssourced from Emmanuel farms Aluu Rivers state Nigeria. The reported results were TOC of 99.5 % for corn chaff, 3.31 mg L -1 of nitrate-nitrogen for corn steep liquor, 2.42% of phosphorus content for poultry droppings and 176.04ppm of potassium content for plantain peels.","tracks":[]}