Agricultural crop residues are abundant both in kind and quantity. Currently, most of them are wasted on the fields or ploughed back into the soil as conditioners and organic fertilizers. Because of their relatively good feed values, some are also used as animal feed. A much smaller quantity, through bioconversion, serves as raw material for some traditional fermented foods, as [...]
In this article we will discuss about how to fertilize the soil naturally by using organic manures. Organic manures are natural products used by farmers to provide food (plant nutrients) for the crop plants. There are a number of organic manures like farmyard manure, green manures, compost prepared from crop residues and other farm wastes, vermicompost, oil cakes, and biological [...]
Concentrated organic manures are those materials that are organic in nature and contain higher percentages of essential plant nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potash, as compared to bulky organic manures. These concentrated manures are made from raw materials of animal or plant origin. The concentrated organic manures commonly used are- aquatic weeds, oilcakes, blood-meal, fish meal, meat meal and [...]