Tips on improving soil fertilty - Farmyad Manure

What is a farm yard manure? What is the typical soil nutritional value in farm yard manure?



This is the traditional manure and is mostly readily available to the farmers. Farm yard manure is a decomposed mixture of Cattle dung and urine with straw and litter used as bedding material and residues from the fodder fed to the cattle. The waste material of cattle shed consisting of dung and urine soaked in the refuse of the shade is collected daily and placed in trenches about 6-7 m long, 1.5-2 m broad and 1 m deep. Each trench is filled up to a height of about 0.5 m above the ground level. The top of the heap is to be made dome shaped and plastered over with cow dung earth slurry. It becomes ready to apply after 3-4 months. It is possible to prepare by this process 7-8.5 cu.m of manure. (5-6 tonnes or 10-12 cart loads) per year per head of cattle.

A typical analysis of farmyard manure from cow dung is given below for reference. The values could be different based on the feed provided to the cow from farm to farm. The values are only for reference purposes:
Nitrogen 0.5000
Phosphorus 0.2500
Potassium 0.4000
Calcium 0.0800
Sulfur 0.0200
Zinc 0.0040
Copper 0.0003
Manganese 0.0070
Iron 0.4500

You can further fortify and enrich your farm yard manure with bio fertilisers. This will make your farm yard manure richer. Application of fortified farm yard manure will enhance the soil fertility substantially.