الفهرس 
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Abstract
Egypt is facing a turbulent increase in population, as it has become nearly100 million people or more. This imbalance between fast growth population and limited agricultural resources has resulted in a shortage in food supplies. Consequently, it is necessarily to reclaim its marginal soils and cultivate the crops, which provide food security for the people of Egypt. There is a debate among researchers regarding the most efficient approach for low quality-soil management. To manage the fertility of reclaimed soils, some of scientists favor the absolute Organic Farming System (AOFS). On the contrary, given the low productivity of organic farming, others scientists favor the Conventional Mineral Fertilization System (CMFS) as the most efficient approach. Thus, there is a critical need to capitalize modern approaches for modern soil reclamation. This modern approach should combine both the properties of sustainability of AOFS and the high productivity of CMFS. The traditional method of organic fertilizers applications depends on incorporating organic fertilizers such as compost into the plow layer of soil. However, this traditional technique needs huge amounts of compost to achieve a pronounced influences; this is beside the high cost of labor. Consequently, it is necessarily to seek for modern techniques to improve the economic viability of compost application in organic farming systems. Compost enrichment with organic additives such as chicken manure, seaweeds (marine algae) as well as mineral additives (e.g. feldspars and phosphate rock) could provide an win-win approach for improving nutrients content in compost to be able to compete with chemical fertilizers without negative side effects associated with traditional fertilization systems.