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Development of Biofertilizers and Microbial Consortium an Approach to Sustainable Agriculture Practices

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Plant, Soil and Microbes in Tropical Ecosystems

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Globally, there is excessive use of chemical fertilizer beyond the soil and crop threshold limits which had a deleterious effect on the soil ecosystem. So, now agriculturalists are switching from agrochemical practices to agro-biotechnological practices by using soil microbes as a source of fertilizers. In developed countries, soil microbial communities have been considered as the prime factor for sustainable agricultural practices for the last few decades. The activities and the interaction of these soil microorganisms have been proven to promote plant growth, soil quality, and productivity and maintain the biogeochemical cycle, earth geochemical stability, and climatic conditions of the earth system. Biofertilizers are the formulation of the beneficial microbial strains (bacteria, fungus, and algae) packed on the carrier for mobilization. Biofertilizers can fix the atmospheric nitrogen and mineralize the soil’s organic matter. Biofertilizers inoculants may be single species-specific or in the combination of different compatible strains. Microbial consortia are the symbiotic interactions of combinations of two or more compatible microbial strains. A microbial consortium improves the productivity of crop and soil in extreme stress conditions much better than the single-strain inoculants. Therefore, microbial fertilizers and consortium are the best solution to achieve sustainable agricultural practices worldwide.

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