Not only fertility value but also some pesticidal and herbicidal values

Dear Salwan Al-maliki,

Please have a look at these useful links.

Article Recycling coffee and tea wastes to increase plant available ...

http://www.allresearchjournal.com/archives/2015/vol1issue10/PartB/1-9-87.pdf

http://www.imedpub.com/articles/the-use-of-municipal-wastes-azolla-and-tea-wastes-composts-as-the-growth-medium-of-english-daisy.pdf

http://www.phytojournal.com/archives/2018/vol7issue1/PartQ/7-1-16-441.pdf

https://www.arpapress.com/Volumes/JPCS/Vol8/JPCS_8_05.pdf

Article Recycling coffee and tea wastes to increase plant available ...

Article Recycling coffee grounds and tea leaf wastes to improve the ...

Conference Paper Determining the effects of tea waste and farmyard manure sup...

Good luck!

Thanks Arvind for providing a good support.

Dear Dr. Salwan Al-maliki,

As all vegetal wastes, also tea waste have a high fertility value for soil and plants due to their rich content in complex organic molecules such as cellulose, hemicelluloses, proteins, lipids, poliphenols as well as many minerals. Such waste can be aerobically and anaerobically decomposed by microorganisms (bacteria, fungi and yeast) to simple molecules and oligoelements which are required for plants growth. But a correct management practice must be considered since the uncontrolled decomposition of such waste, when directly applied on soil, may lead to environmental pollution (acid leachate that contaminates soils and groundwater, methane that is a greenhouse gas contributing to air pollution etc.). Therefore, a non-polluting practice of using tea waste as a fertilizer in agriculture is their stabilization by techniques such as composting, solid-state fermentation, thus resulting in a non-acid and non-polluting fertilizer, while the generated fuel gas (methane) can be recovered and valorised.

Not only fertility value but also some pesticidal and herbicidal values

Thanks Dr. Carmen for such typical useful informations.

Tea wastes might play a concrete role in soil as they can improve soil microbial community by supplying the necessary nutrients , cellulose and polyphenol which enhance plant growth subsequently.

Also they may modify the high pH OF SOIL via the organic acids , leading to healthy rhizosopheric area.

Thank you Felix for notes.

Agree with Felix Nwafor

Thanks for answering dear.

Almost all plant residues have high fertility value and the addition of these compounds to soil can enhance soil fertility, but since tea waste is produced in acidic conditions it is better to use stabilized compositions such as compost

Thanks Hassan. Ok its highly likely acidic, do you think it will be properly worked in saline soil which has higher pH?

I may be stating the obvious, but you of course have to be aware of the tea bags and whether they have plastic in their composition.

Thanks Sanders. I Tea bags might contian plastic materials but we are in a favourite of using the tea leaves which are a result of boiling of the tea leaves . These waste can be used for plant as studies have proved its decent composition as a fertilizer.

Check the following article regarding the increment of nutrients by utilization of tea waste and production of organic compost using tea

Article The effects of bio-solid and tea waste application into diff...

http://www.vpmthane.org/sci/FAVEO/r14.pdf

Very interesting information Nath, thanks

Dear Dr. Carmen Mateescu,

If we are managing healthy decomposition of tea waste, when applied directly on agriculture land, In context of Indian climate zone, without any stabilization techniques, and managing on site stabilization in correct way, then will it do same effect or better than stabilized one.

Also can you help me to understand the use of solid state fermentation technique for stabilization of ref material.

I have confidence, SSF will work better, but need more help to understand.

Thanks and regards,

Dinesh.

Thank you josh for your contribution.

Dear Dr. Dinesh,

SSF is not quite my field of expertise but there is a lot of documentation on the internet about this method. I send you some papers that might help you. I sincerely don't understand what do you mean by healthy decomposition of such waste when applied directly on the soil. I do not see how this practice can avoid acid leakage and methane emissions if the waste is not stabilized prior. Regards.