IISR’s progressive formulations assist handle soil pH points and enhance crop yields

ICAR-Indian Institute of Spices Analysis, Kozhikode, has developed three new microbial formulations primarily based on granular lime and gypsum to assist farmers enhance agricultural productiveness.

The formulations developed utilizing IISR’s patent-applied know-how .can handle soil pH points and ship helpful microorganisms concurrently by means of a single formulation, a press launch stated.

Bactolime integrates helpful micro organism or PGPRs (Plant Development Selling Rhizobacteria) with liming materials right into a single formulation. These helpful micro organism, being a possible software for sustainable agriculture, guarantee the provision of important vitamins to vegetation and assist improve nutrient use effectivity.

Strains like Bacillus sp and Pseudomonas are generally utilized in agriculture as nutrient solubilizers/mobilizers in addition to plant development stimulants.

Recognizing this potential of helpful micro organism, scientists at IISR developed ‘Bactolime’, which integrates liming materials and helpful micro organism, performing the operate of each – ameliorating the soil’s low pH and making certain supply of plant- helpful micro organism by means of a single product.

Round 6.73 million ha of land in India is affected by salt. This saline/sodic soil adversely impacts agriculture productiveness, typically making crop manufacturing actions economically unviable. To advertise use of helpful microorganisms, IISR developed two gypsum-based bacterial formulations: Bactogypsum and Trichogypsum.

Gypsum is historically used to counteract soil salinity/sodicity. Whereas Bactogypsum ameliorates excessive pH soils and ensures simultaneous supply of plant helpful micro organism, Trichogypsum delivers Trichoderma – a fungal biocontrol agent and corrects the excessive pH ranges of soil.

Each ‘Bactogypsum’ and ‘Trichogypsum’ buffer the soil pH to a near-neutral degree, making a beneficial surroundings for establishing these helpful microbes. This, in flip, improves the bodily situation of the soil, enhances the provision of secondary vitamins, and boosts total microbial exercise.

R Dinesh, Director of IISR, stated the know-how opens up new vistas for designing built-in approaches to enhancing soil well being and crop yields.

Scientists from IISR V Srinivasan, R Praveena, S J Eapen and Director R Dinesh are the inventors of those formulations.

The primary product utilizing this formulation know-how, Tricholime, which integrates Trichoderma and lime, was launched a number of months in the past.