Role of Biofertilizer in Agriculture
Siddhanta Mishra*
Regional Centre, ICAR-Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Bhubaneswar, Odisha (751 019), India
Sonia Bhuyan
Regional Centre, ICAR-Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Bhubaneswar, Odisha (751 019), India
Samarendra Narayan Mallick
Regional Centre, ICAR-Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Bhubaneswar, Odisha (751 019), India
Sarita Biswal
Regional Centre, ICAR-Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Bhubaneswar, Odisha (751 019), India
Vijay Bahadur Singh Chauhan
Regional Centre, ICAR-Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Bhubaneswar, Odisha (751 019), India
DOI: NIL
Keywords: Biofertilizer, Crop production, Environmental stress, Sustainable agriculture
Abstract
The worldwide increase in human population every year raises a major threat to the food security of the people as the land for agriculture is restricted and even drastic reduction with time. Therefore, it is essential that agricultural productivity should be enhanced significantly within the next few decades to meet the large demand of food by emerging population. Due to dependence on chemical fertilizers for more crop productions damages both ecosystem and human health with great severity. Biofertilizers are one of the greatest nature gifts of our agricultural science as partial replacement for chemical fertilizers. Biofertilizer contains microbes which encourage the adequate supply of nutrients to the host plants and ensure their proper development of growth and regulation in their physiology. Living microbes are used in the preparation of biofertilizers. Biofertilizers being essential components of sustainable farming play vital role in maintaining long term soil fertility and sustainability of crop production.
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