Future of Bio-fertilizers in Indian agriculture: An Overview

Mazid, Mohd; Khan, Taqi Ahmed

doi:10.24102/ijafr.v3i3.132

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“…The development of biofertilizer with multi-crop growth promoting activities is most important for sustainable global agriculture. (Bhattacharyya, 2009;Mazid and Khan, 2014). Generally, in conventional agriculture there are two major inputs necessary for crop production, viz., fertilizer and pesticide; in other words, it can be said that fertilizer is food and pesticide is medicine for plants (Muraleedharan et al, 2010).…”

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“…which are mostly used unsterilized (Borkar, 2015;Panda, 2013).Most studies suggest that biofertilizers, sold in markets are contaminated and have a low count of microorganisms. Generally, producers do not pay attention to the host specific strains and as a result biofertilizers cannot express their potentiality (Mazid and Khan, 2014;Motghare and Gauraha, 2012). Indian Standard Institute (ISI) specifications are recently available only for Rhizobium and Azotobacter; specification for Azospirillum and phosphobacteria have been formulated.…”

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“…Indian Standard Institute (ISI) specifications are recently available only for Rhizobium and Azotobacter; specification for Azospirillum and phosphobacteria have been formulated. Till now, there is no regulatory act for production of biofertilizers (Mazid and Khan, 2014).…”

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“…It has been reported that by the 2020 approximately 321 million tonnes of foodgrain is required to feed the population; for this purpose the requirement of nutrients will be 28.8 million tonnes, whereas the availability will be only 21.6 million tonnes and this leads to the deficiency of 7.2 million tonnes of nutrients (Mazid and Khan, 2014). Secondly, scientists are concerned about the detrimental effects related to biosphere i.e.…”

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Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria and Rhizobium combinations are the key to reduce dependence on phosphorus fertilizers in lentil - A review

Singh

2018

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Improved agricultural technologies are helping in meeting the foodgrain needs of growing global population while the arable land is shrinking. So, the excessive and continuous use of chemical fertilizers has ensured the high crop production and productivity of foodgrains. However, continuous application of inorganic fertilizers has created many problems related to biosphere i.e. environmental, soil and human being. In recent years, the scientists are concerned about biosphere hazardous; thus, reducing the extra burden of inorganic fertilizers by using microbial inoculants for integrated nutrient management. The microbial inoculations supplement the plant growth and yield by direct ways (increase in supply of nutrients i.e. nitrogen, production of metabolites such as auxins, cytokinins and gibberellins as well as through the solubilization of phosphate and other minerals) and indirect ways (biofertilizers eliminate the pathogens by the production of cyanide, siderophores, chitinase etc.). The microbial inoculation stimulates the plant to use applied as well as fixed nutrients i.e. phosphate efficiently, thus helps to reduce the fertilizers input. Secondly, biofertilizers are considered as economically feasible and environmentally safe.

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“…The study has attempted on future projections of consumption of chemical fertilizers and also food grain production. Mazid and Khan (2015) analysed the usage of bio fertilizer in agriculture in India. The study used linear regressing model to identify the relationship between the usage of bio fertilizers and agriculture production.…”

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