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Agricultural benefits and environmental risks of soil fertilization with anaerobic digestates: a review

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Intensive soil fertilization with mineral fertilizers has led to several issues such as high cost, nitrate pollution and loss of soil carbon. Fertilization with organic matter such as compost therefore represents an alternative for sustainable agriculture. Traditional organic amendments such as manures, composts and sewage sludge have been extensively studied in the past. However, applications of biogas digestates and their impacts on the environment and human health are still unexplored. Recent articles report the agricultural potential and conflicting results of digestate performances. As a consequence, the effectiveness of digestate as organic amendment and fertilizer is still under debate. Here we review the legislative, chemical, agronomic and environmental literature on anaerobic digestates. We found that digestates can be considered as organic amendments or organic fertilizers, when properly handled and managed. Indeed we further show that anaerobic digestates have a higher potential to harm the environment and human health than undigested animal manures and slurries. The main points are the following: (1) Most solid digestates comply with the European organic matter minimal requirement for an organic amendment; (2) the fertilizer values of liquid digestates lie between those of livestock manures and inorganic fertilizers; (3) anaerobic digestates have higher NH3 emission potential than undigested animal manures and slurries and, consequently, pose a greater risk to the broad environment; (4) high Cu and Zn concentrations in digestates from co-digestion of pig and cattle slurry feedstock could jeopardize the sustainability of agricultural soils and (5) high Mn concentrations in digestates can induce Mn toxicity in agricultural soils, upon repeated applications.

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Nkoa, R. Agricultural benefits and environmental risks of soil fertilization with anaerobic digestates: a review. Agron. Sustain. Dev. 34, 473–492 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-013-0196-z

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