What is Ash4Soil?
Ash4Soil is a supra-regional Operational Group aimed at improving the fertility of acidic soils and increasing productivity in forest and agricultural plantations through the development and use of a soil amendment and fertilizer called Ash4Soil. This product is derived from by-products of forestry and livestock origins.
The Ash4Soil amendment-fertilizer is based on the use of two waste products of significant national importance. On the one hand, ashes from the combustion of forest biomass, which have a considerable amendment capacity due to their high calcium content, but whose current disposal method is landfilling. On the other hand, manure produced on livestock farms, which has fertilizing potential and represents the main waste from these operations, causing a significant environmental problem of diffuse pollution.
More specifically, the goal of the Ash4Soil amendment-fertilizer is, on the one hand, to improve soil pH, while compensating for pH reductions caused by calcium leaching, organic matter mineralization associated with the conversion of ammonium to nitrate in the soil, and the extraction of calcium by crops. It can also act as a structuring agent in sandy soils. On the other hand, it aims to utilize the large nitrogen source (mainly ammonium) found in different types of manure and poultry litter, which can replace nitrogen mineral fertilizers that generate a significant environmental cost due to the energy consumption involved in their synthesis from atmospheric nitrogen.
Therefore, the project promotes a circular economy through waste valorization and bioeconomy, aiming to create a business model based on the reuse of organic waste, contributing to the competitiveness, productivity, and sustainability of the poultry sector.
Therefore, the project promotes a circular economy through waste valorization and bioeconomy, aiming to create a business model based on the reuse of organic waste, contributing to the competitiveness, productivity, and sustainability of the poultry sector.
Ash4Soil is a supra-regional Operational Group aimed at improving the fertility of acidic soils and increasing productivity in forest and agricultural plantations through the development and use of a soil amendment and fertilizer called Ash4Soil. This product is derived from by-products of forestry and livestock origins.
The Ash4Soil amendment-fertilizer is based on the use of two waste products of significant national importance. On the one hand, ashes from the combustion of forest biomass, which have a considerable amendment capacity due to their high calcium content, but whose current disposal method is landfilling. On the other hand, manure produced on livestock farms, which has fertilizing potential and represents the main waste from these operations, causing a significant environmental problem of diffuse pollution.
More specifically, the goal of the Ash4Soil amendment-fertilizer is, on the one hand, to improve soil pH, while compensating for pH reductions caused by calcium leaching, organic matter mineralization associated with the conversion of ammonium to nitrate in the soil, and the extraction of calcium by crops. It can also act as a structuring agent in sandy soils. On the other hand, it aims to utilize the large nitrogen source (mainly ammonium) found in different types of manure and poultry litter, which can replace nitrogen mineral fertilizers that generate a significant environmental cost due to the energy consumption involved in their synthesis from atmospheric nitrogen.
Therefore, the project promotes a circular economy through waste valorization and bioeconomy, aiming to create a business model based on the reuse of organic waste, contributing to the competitiveness, productivity, and sustainability of the poultry sector.
Therefore, the project promotes a circular economy through waste valorization and bioeconomy, aiming to create a business model based on the reuse of organic waste, contributing to the competitiveness, productivity, and sustainability of the poultry sector.
