@article{DING:245263,
      recid = {245263},
      author = {DING, Zheli and HAN, Lina and JIN, Zhiqiang and WANG,  Bizun and ZENG, Huicai and ZHENG, Wei and HE, Yingdui and  ZANG, Xiaoping},
      title = {Effect of Banana Stalk Organic Fertilizer on the Growth of  Chinese Cabbage},
      journal = {Asian Agricultural Research},
      address = {2016-07},
      number = {1812-2016-144553},
      pages = {5},
      year = {2016},
      abstract = {In order to solve the problem of waste disposal after  banana harvest, we use banana stalk to produce banana stalk  organic fertilizer, through a plot experiment. We compare  the influence of normal organic fertilizer (Wanlubao) and  banana stalk organic fertilizer as base fertilizers on  Chinese cabbage growth, and evaluate the economic benefits  of banana stalk organic fertilizer. The results show that  organic fertilizer has little effect on water content and  nutrient content of Chinese cabbage, but has significant  effect on plant height and leaf width. Using organic  fertilizer can increase the production of Chinese cabbage  by 22.50%-43.10%. With 6750 kg/ha normal organic  fertilizer, Chinese cabbage gets the highest yield, which  reaches 30135 kg/ha, followed by the treatment of 6750  kg/ha stalk organic fertilizer. At farmers’ conventional  fertilization level (4500 kg/ha), stalk organic fertilizer  can increase the yield by more than 3.50% in comparison  with the normal organic fertilizer, and the economic  benefit increases by 1800 yuan/ha. As a kind of banana  waste cycling product, banana stalk organic fertilizer is  of low cost and good effect, and can be used instead of  normal organic fertilizer.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/245263},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.245263},
}