This article provides a short note on bio-fertilizers. 'Bio-fertilizers' or 'Microbial inoculants' are defined as preparations containing live or latent cells of efficient strains of nitrogen fixing, phosphate solubilizing or cellulolytic microorganisms used for application to seed, soil or composting areas with the objectives of increasing the population of such beneficial micro-organisms and accelerate certain microbial processes to augment the [...]
This article provides a short note on customized fertilizer. Customized fertilizer [Manufacture basically involves mixing and crushing of urea, DAP, MOP, ZnS, bentonite sulphur and boron granules for obtaining the desired proportion of N, P, K, S and micro-nutrients. The mixture is subjected to steam injection, drying, sieving and cooling, so as to get a uniform product with every grain [...]
This article provides a short note on the nutrient deficiency symptoms of soil. In this technique plants act as integrators of all growth factors. The appearances of abnormalities in the growing plants are caused by a deficiency of one or more nutrient elements. The visual method of evaluating soil fertility is good because it involves no expenditure and no laboratory [...]