“…Many studies related to the use of one type of seaweed bio-stimulant have been carried out, including on chickpeas [18,19], dates [20], tomato seedlings [21], leeks [22], chili [23,24], and few reported the use of seaweed [25] on shallot plants. The use of beneficial bacteria as bio-stimulants in various plants has also been carried out, including in lettuce [26], rice and corn [27], strawberries [28], rice [29], maize [30,31], potatoes [32], soybean [33], kailan [34], chili [35,36] etc. Several studies are known to use beneficial bacteria to increase the growth of shallots [37,38,39,40].…”