Cotton is undoubtedly one of the most important cash crop and fiber crop in India, given the fact that a lot of our daily products ranging from home furnishing goods, textiles, healthcare kits to cosmetic commodities use it as a raw material. This Kharif crop is direct income source for around 6 million farmers in […]
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Zinc is an important micronutrient essential for a healthy development of plants and maintain appropriate soil nutrition throughout their production. It helps in hormone production as well as nodule internode elongation of crops that includes flowering plants like rose, jasmine or mango. It influences the production of auxins which is a catalyst in plant growth
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A thin line exists in both these sustainable options of impregnetions. Know how. We are not new to using a term casually enough that the original meaning of it is lost in our daily conversations. Sometimes, it is because the differences that are not clearly visible or because of poor understanding of a concept. This
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Cowpea, also known as black-eyed pea or southern pea, is one of the most important food legume crops in the semiarid tropic areas in Asia, Africa, southern Europe as well as Central and South America. It is considered as a major source of income for farmers living in semidesert regions where it is hard to
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The most natural way of fixing atmospheric nitrogen and using it for crop development is through the plantation of leguminous crops. These plants have nodules in their roots that contain N2-fixing bacteria. They are widely used in crop rotation to increase soil fertility due to the same reason and yet require fertilizers that can catalyze
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Soybean is a leguminous crop that is cultivated mainly in the rainy seasons in central and peninsular India. Like other legumes, this crop is also well-known for its N2-fixing ability and is therefore used in crop rotation. Rhizobium inoculant is approved as the best biofertilizer for leguminous crops like soybean as it can provide adequate
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Organic farming is not a new concept in Indian agriculture. The history of the country’s farming sector suggests that, for a long time, much before the invention of synthetic fertilizers and their introduction to Indian lands, people relied on fertilizers and pesticides acquired from plant and animal products. With the green revolution era, the entry
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Microbial inoculants like Azospirillum, Acetobacter, Azotobector, and Phosphate solubilizing biofertilizer (PSB) are proposed for sugarcane. The initial three fertilizers are nitrogen-fixing bacteria and PSB is used to convert the insoluble phosphorus into a more absorbable form for the root of these plants. Sugarcane is one of the prominent cash crops in India that is grown
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Have you ever spotted white chalky patches or uneven spread of yellowish coating on leaves? If yes, then you have come across the foliar diseases that the crops suffer from due to fungal infection, and expands more in presence of supportive weather conditions that can accelerate the contamination. It ruins the overall health of the
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Azotobacter chroococcum and Bacillus cereus are the topmost contenders for a fiber crop like cotton. This dicotyledon plant is mainly produced in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, and parts of Andhra Pradesh & Karnataka. On a beginner’s note – Why use biofertilizers? Agriculture is considered the fundamental livelihood source for 58%
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