Reuse of Sewage Sludge as Organic Agricultural Products: An Efficient Technology-Based Initiative

Table 5

Physicochemical parameters of soil treated with different types of fertilisers with respect to control.

	C	NJPR	MJPR	NJP	MJP
pH	7.7 ± 0.01	6.9 ± 0.01^#	8 ± 0.05^#	7.7 ± 0.01	7.50 ± 05
Moisture content (%)	4.16 ± 0.01	7.46 ± 0.05^#	6 ± 0.07^#	3.22 ± 0.01	4.44 ± 0.03
Electrical conductivity (dS/m)	0.002 ± 0.01	0.02 ± 0.01^#	0.01 ± 0.01^#	0.05 ± 0.01^#	0.67 ± 0.01^#
Total organic carbon (%)	0.39 ± 0.1	0.64 ± 0.01^#	0.86 ± 0.13^#	0.55 ± 0.04^#	0.45 ± 0.1

^#Significant difference from the control samples as derived from one way ANOVA at 95% confidence interval (n = 5).