Evaluation of microbial inoculants pretreatment in straw and manure co-composting process enhancement

Commercial microbial inoculants (MI) are usually inoculated during the co-composting of straw and manure to improve the compost process. In the present study, MI was prior used to pretreat straw before co-composting (MI pretreated) and compared with a treatment with inoculated MI during the co-composting (MI inoculated) as well as a treatment without MI utilization (CK). Compared with the CK, MI utilization (MI inoculated and MI pretreated)...