Cover crops are often defined as crops grown for the protection and enrichment of the soil. They are sometimes referred to as green manures or living mulches because if the definition is expanded a bit they are crops grown to suppress weeds, build productive soils and help control pests and diseases. Cover crops can be soil builders, soil looseners, soil water conservers, erosion fighters, nutr...

Crop production by the use of sustainable methods in agriculture has become the order of the day as there is a growing concern to conserve the environment and make the earth last longer for posterity. Keeping this end in view there is a constant search for manures and fertilizers that are eco-friendly and biodegradable. Vermicomposting is a novel method of decomposing organic matter and produci...

In order to evaluation effect of different level of humic acid affected drought stress on seed yield, its components and morphological traits of corn a research farm was conducted according split plot experiment based randomized complete blocks design at three replication during 2015 year. Main factor included four irrigation regimes (90mm, 110 mm, 130 mm and 150mm evaporation from pan class A)...

Highlights The MAPHEX System removes and concentrates most of the P other nutrients from liquid dairy manures. Most N K are left in fraction for beneficial use farmer. Design expected performance a simplified but much larger is discussed. Abstract. relatively recent concept manureshed highlights problem broken nutrient cycle modern animal agriculture low nitrogen:phosphorus ratio manure relativ...

A field trial was conducted during 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19 and 2019–20 at the Main Horticultural Research Extension Centre, Bagalkot under Northern Dry Zone-3 of Agroclimatic zones Karnataka with an intention to study response moringa (Moringa oleifera L.) crop different organic sources nutrients. There were five nutrition treatments, viz. T1, 100% RDN through FYM; T2, vermicompost; T3, neem ...

recently, biological fertilizers extensively recommended because of over application of chemical fertilizer and their effects on environment and production resources. in order to study the effect of inoculate phosphate solubilization microorganisms (psm) and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (pgpr) on nutrient use efficiency in corn [zea mays (l.) cv. sc 604] an experiment was conducted in 2...

The objective of this work was to study the co-composting process of wastes from the winery and distillery industry with animal manures, using the classical chemical methods traditionally used in composting studies together with advanced instrumental methods (thermal analysis, FT-IR and CPMAS 13C NMR techniques), to evaluate the development of the process and the quality of the end-products obt...

Animal manures are a valuable resource, providing readily available plant nutrients ; however, runoff from lands receiving animal manure has been shown to contribute to water pollution. Understanding the loss of nutrients from slow release fertilizers, such as animal manure, after application is critical in determining and designing practices to reduce and/or control the temporal availability a...