22 Apr Biofertilizers: A Tool for Sustainable Agriculture
जैव उर्वरक: टिकाऊ खेती के लिए एक साधन After the introduction of chemical fertilizers in the last century, farmers were happy of getting increased yield in agriculture in the beginning. However, slowly chemical fertilizers started displaying their ill effects such as leaching out and polluting water basins, destroying microorganisms and friendly insects, making the crop more susceptible to diseases, reducing the soil fertility and thus causing irreparable damage to the overall system. A number of intellectuals found that biofertilizers can help in increasing the yield without causing the damage associated with chemical fertilizers. What is Bio Fertilizer? Biofertilizers are preparations containing microorganisms, with capability of mobilizing nutritive elements from non-usable form to usable form...