Give some examples of Bio-fertilizers?

There are five biofertilizers viz. Rhizobium, Azotobacter, Azospirillum, Phosphate Solubilizing Bacteria and mycorrhiza , which have been incorporated in India’s  Fertilizer Control Order (FCO), 1985.  Rhizobium, Azotobacter, Azospirillum and blue green algae(BGA) have been traditionally used as Biofertilizers. Rhizobiuminoculant is used for leguminous crops such as pulses. Azotobacter can be used with crops like wheat, maize, mustard, cotton, potato and other vegetable crops. Blue green algae such as Nostoc, Anabaena, Tolypothrix and Aulosira fix atmospheric nitrogen and are used as inoculants for paddy crop.  Phosphate solubilizing bacteria like Pantoea agglomerans strain P5, and Pseudomonas putida strain P13 are able to make the phosphate usable by solubilize it from inorganic sources.


3 Comments

  1. sweety

    January 25, 2015 at 4:03 pm

    excellent source of information I had ever been searching for. thanks a lot……………

  2. vinita

    February 26, 2015 at 8:06 am

    Appriciable imformation about biofertilizers….thanku

  3. niaz

    July 6, 2020 at 10:49 am

    Excellent knowledge for those soils which are unfertilized and continuously usage of fertilizers and wastage their fertility and loosing strength so for those lands it very important to rotate cropping pattern like as legumes crops for enhancing the fertility of the soil increase step for production in AGRICULTURE site.

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