Thermal supplementing soil nutrients through biocomposting of night-soil in the northwestern Indian Himalaya

Waste Management

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1008-1019

  Oinam, Santaram S ^a   Rawat, Yashwant S ^a   Kuniyal, Jagdish C ^a   Vishvakarma, S C R ^a   Pandey, Dinesh C ^b  

^a G B PANT INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT   (India)

^b KUMAUN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COMPOSTING; NUTRIENTS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION;

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; HUMAN EXCRETA;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AGRICULTURE; COMPOSTING; NUTRIENTS; SOIL SURVEYS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURE; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COMPOSTING; GRASS; MANURE; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL NUTRIENT; VEGETATION COVER;

ARTICLE; COMPOSTING; DESERT; INTERVIEW; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; BIOREACTORS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FECES; FERTILIZERS; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INDIA; SOIL;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

BOS;

EID: 40949138239     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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