Farmers practices in organic and inorganic fertilization on crops, trees and vegetables

Abstract : This chapter provides the analysis and evaluation of compost utilization for agricultural production in Thai Binh province, Vietnam, as well as the database for simulating future possibilities of the usage of pig effluence through provincial orientations for livestock development up to 2010 in Thai Binh province. Requirement of organic fertilizer in agricultural production is major absorption banks of waste from livestock components and human ejection that includes rice-based system and annual crops, fruit trees and aquaculture system. Details of the capacity of absorption of each component which depends on soil characteristics, crops' demand, season cropping and farming management techniques by farmers, are provided. Field survey results clearly indicated that agriculture in Thai Binh has facing with the shortage of organic fertilizer and imbalance nutrient in production.