Developing countries as the nations of Indian subcontinent are experiencing big-bangs regarding their ecomic, agricultural and industrial development. The sole aim of present mechanized and advanced agricultural practices is to produce enhanced grain yield to satiate the hunger of burgeoning population. Thus the present scenario demands the use of chemical fertilizers and other agrochemicals. However the production cost of these chemical products is to high as it increases pressure on the fossils fuel reserves of the country. Bioiculants are the culture concoctions/live microbial isolates that are presently the most ecologically feasible and ecomically sound example of practical reproduction of lab experimentation for the help of modern day farmeBroadly, bioiculants include biofertilzers, biopesticides and organic decomposers. Biofertilizers are live cells of beneficial microbial isolates that provide necessary nutrients nitrogen, phosphorous etc, excrete growth promoting compounds and provide resistance to a variety of diseases that culminates to enhanced yield and production. While biopesticides are live microbial isolates or their metabolic products that eradicate/kill kwn insects/pests of crops. Among commercialized biopesticides Bt cotton emerged as the first brand ambassador of modern day pesticides. The third component of bioiculants are the organic decomposers that include certain fungal species, bacterial genera and actimycetes that hasten decomposition of organic compounds and make available nutrients held as organic matter.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New India Publishing Agency
ISBN-10
8189422219
ISBN-13
9788189422219
eBay Product ID (ePID)
220704646
Product Key Features
Author
R. P. Gupta, A. Kalia
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Agriculture & Farming
Type
Textbook
Dimensions
Weight
505g
Height
230mm
Width
140mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
New Delhi
Spine
19mm
Content Note
Tables, Figures, Colour Plates
Date of Publication
01/02/2007
Country of Publication
India
Genre
Agriculture & Farming
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