Influence of Different Sources of Organic Manures and Decomposers on Enzymatic Activity and Microbial Dynamics of Rhizosphere Soil of Chilli (Capsicum annum L.)

Effect of Zero Budget Natural Farming and Conventional Farming Systems on Biological Properties of Soil

“…The acid phosphatase activity was also highest under ZBNF (112µg PNP g -1 h -1 ) followed by Organic Farming (99µg PNP g -1 h -1 ) and CF (84µg PNP g -1 h -1 ). Gangadhar et al, (2020) also provided a supportive base to our study with dehydrogenase activity (53.70 TPF formed g -1 soil day -1 ), acid phosphatase activity (31.35 PNP formed g -1 soil hour -1 ), alkaline phosphatase activity (21.66 PNP formed g-1 soil hour -1 ) and urease activity (5.97 g NH4-N formed g -1 soil hour -1 ) in jeevamrit formulations. Soil enzymes are the basic degradation unit in soil, if their activity reduced that reduces the availability of nutrients in soil.…”

“…These formulations are rich in bacteria, fungus and actinomycetes population which not only provide basic soil conditioning but also have long lasting effect that leads to improvement in other soil biodiversity like soil arthropods, earthworms and other beneficiary fauna. Cow urine and dung based products are highly effective in improving the soil properties, and they increases the population of beneficial bacteria and fungus which act as antagonist against the plant pathogenic microorganisms (Gangadhar et al, 2020). Similarly these formulations also increase the beneficial arthropods predators in soil that lowers the pest population.…”

Influence of Different Concentrations of Jeevamrutha on Growth, Yield and Quality Parameters of Chilli (Capsicum annum L.)

“…The increase in TSS might be due to synthesis of auxin which in turn increased synthesis of metabolites and their rapid translocation from other parts of plants to developing fruits. However, fruits acted as a strong sink for drawing metabolites from the leaves [17][18][19].…”