Assessing Physiochemical Characteristics of Agricultural Waste and Ready Compost at Wadi Al-Far’a Watershed of Palestine

Table 2

Physiochemical properties of raw organic agricultural waste produced in the WFW.

Sample no.	EC (dS/m)	pH	N (%)	P (%)	K (%)	Na (%)	Cl (%)	MC (%)	OM (%)	Ca (%)	Mg (%)	C/N
W1	6.00	6.45	0.80	0.08	0.90	0.09	0.36	10.14	82.49	0.42	0.14	59.90
W2	6.40	6.67	1.95	0.13	1.00	0.08	0.44	9.44	82.56	0.61	0.22	24.60
W3	9.60	6.60	2.57	0.16	0.70	0.10	0.25	10.24	75.22	0.76	0.26	17.00
W4	5.63	6.88	19.05	0.13	1.00	0.12	4.89	10.15	77.18	0.37	0.09	2.30
W5	4.03	7.02	5.21	0.12	1.00	0.06	0.87	21.97	67.05	0.19	0.04	7.50
W6	5.66	7.03	2.84	0.15	1.60	0.08	0.96	23.03	66.05	0.10	0.04	13.50
W7	2.17	3.71	0.22	0.05	0.70	0.02	0.03	85.27	14.48	0.17	0.04	38.20
W8	1.26	3.56	4.07	0.01	1.40	0.02	0.01	85.50	14.50	0.09	0.04	2.10
W9	8.10	5.37	2.91	0.06	2.00	0.15	2.01	9.15	74.75	0.78	0.47	14.90
W10	4.65	6.97	2.60	0.16	4.50	0.08	0.69	5.72	72.59	1.20	0.54	16.20
W11	4.00	7.35	18.55	0.13	1.00	0.20	0.49	11.41	63.47	0.24	0.04	2.00
W12	8.90	5.47	3.21	0.12	2.80	0.10	1.45	8.95	78.76	0.73	0.25	14.20
W13	6.40	5.20	1.37	0.13	1.20	0.20	1.14	9.09	76.35	0.66	0.26	32.40
W14	10.70	6.90	3.71	0.07	1.20	0.02	2.00	10.66	67.84	1.00	0.76	10.60
W15	6.10	5.90	3.01	0.08	2.80	0.15	0.36	9.07	78.39	0.28	0.05	15.10
W16	6.21	7.58	3.22	0.17	2.40	0.15	1.38	5.37	70.86	0.65	0.21	12.80
W17	7.90	6.91	1.75	0.11	2.40	0.25	1.75	8.26	73.36	0.65	0.24	24.30
Min	1.26	3.56	0.22	0.01	0.70	0.02	0.01	5.37	14.48	0.09	0.04	2.00
Average	6.10	6.21	4.53	0.11	1.68	0.11	1.12	19.61	66.82	0.52	0.22	18.09
St. Dev.	2.48	1.19	5.50	0.04	1.02	0.07	1.17	25.20	20.44	0.32	0.21	14.70
Max	10.70	7.58	19.05	0.17	4.50	0.25	4.89	85.50	82.56	1.20	0.76	59.90

Minimum values are indicated in italics. Maximum values are indicated in bold.