Biofertilizers and Organic Farming  (English, Hardcover, Panda Himadri)

Increasing population levels on a near stabilized agricultural land places a heavy burden on the soil source--particularly its nutrient supplying power. Chemical fertilizers have come to increase the output of agricultural product and to meet ever increasing demand of human population. The problem is further compounded in several areas due to excessive use of chemical fertilizers which resulted into considerable deterioration in the quality of indigenous soil. Intensive agriculture with the use of chemical fertilizers in large amount has, no doubt, resulted in manifold increase in the productivity of farm commodities but the adverse effect of these chemicals are clearly visible on soil structure, microflora, quality of water, food and fodder. Organic farming has emerged as the only answer to bring sustainability to agriculture and environment. Organic farming is a farming integration of biological, cultural and natural inputs including integrated diseases and pest management practices.

Integrated plant nutrition can be best if it is practised on scientific facts, local conditions and microeconmics. We hope this publication will create a balanced, objective and science based appreciation for meeting the nutrient needs of agriculture. This book has been written for agricultural planners, soil scientists, biologists, microbiologists, students, teachers, fertilizer industry, personnel research and development units, organisation engaged in biofertilizer production, training centres, all those interested in the efficient use and recycling of wastes, resource management and sustainable farming.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Integrated Plant Nutrition Systems 
Chapter 2: Organic Manures: Their Nature and Characteristics 
Chapter 3: Livestock and Human Wastes: Characteristics and Value 
Chapter 4: Potential of Organic Materials and Plant Nutrients 
Chapter 5: Preparation, Processing and Preservation of Organic Manures 
Chapter 6: Biogas Potential from Livestock Wastes and Human Excreta 
Chapter 7: Response of Crops to Organic Manures 
Chapter 8: Response of Crops to Oragnic Materials in Salt Affected Soils 
Chapter 9: Nitrogen Fixation 
Chapter 10: Mycorrhizae in Agriculture 
Chapter 11: Fertilizers with Organics and Biofertilizers 
Chapter 12: Bulky Organic Manures and Crop Residues 
Chapter 13: Green Manuring: Nutrient Potentials 
Chapter 14: Biological and Industrial Wastes: Source of Plant Nutrients 
Chapter 15: Role of Biofertilizers in Crop Production 
Chapter 16: Biofertilizers for Flooded Rice Ecosystem 
Chapter 17: Production, Distribution and Promotion of Biofertilizers 
Chapter 18: Effect of Biofertilizers on Growth 
Chapter 19: Biofertilizer: A Supplementary Nutrient 
Chapter 20: Bioinoculation and Biofertilizer on Growth 
Chapter 21: Significance and Azospirillum brassilense and Pseudomonas on Growth 
Chapter 22: Application of Mycorrhizae and Rhizobium on Biomass Production 
Chapter 23: Effect of VAM Fungi on Banana Plants 
Chapter 24: Mungbean with Solubizing Bacteria 
Chapter 25: Performance of Azymbiotic Biofertilizers 
Chapter 26: Effect of Azospirillum on Quality of Sugarcane 
Chapter 27: Bioinoculants for Recycling Banana Wastes 
Chapter 28: Pressmud as Plant Growth Promoter 
Chapter 29: Biofertilizer for Multipurpose 
Chapter 30: Tree Legumes Seedlings 
Chapter 31: Infectivity on Growth of Cajanus cajan 
Chapter 32: Saline Soil Tolerance 
Chapter 33: Importance of VAM Mycorrhizae 
Chpater 34: Biochemical and Genetic Characterisation of Mineral Phosphate 
Chpater 35: Effect of Phosphobacterium on Growth  Chapter
36: Effect of Phosphomicrobes  Chapter
37: Recommendations.