Assessing the Effect of Composting Cassava Peel Based Substrates on the Yield, Nutritional Quality, and Physical Characteristics of Pleurotus ostreatus (Jacq. ex Fr.) Kummer

Table 2

Chemical analysis of substrates (dry weight) used in experiments.

Waste	Moisture (%)	Ash (%)	Nitrogen (%)	Protein (%)	Carbon (%)	C/N	pH
Cassava peels	2.42	6.46	1	6.25	44.82	44.82	5.7
Corncobs	2.39	1.98	0.4	2.5	45.66	114.2	4.74
Chicken manure	3.3	18.50	2	30	7	3.5	6.3

Source: [28, 30–32].