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Microbial Inoculants as Biofertilizer

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Microbial Inoculants in Sustainable Agricultural Productivity

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Increasing application of chemical fertilizers in agriculture make country self dependent in food production but it depreciate environment and cause harmful impacts on living beings. The excess uses of these fertilizers in agriculture are costly and have various adverse effects on soil fertility. Further, soil microorganisms play an important role in the plant growth and development by various means viz. nitrogen fixation, phosphate solubilisation, phytohormone production etc. Therefore, bio-inoculants for agriculture purpose i.e. bio-fertilizers could be a better alternative to chemical fertilizers for agricultural as well as environmental sustainability.

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The work mentioned in this chapter from author group was supported by the National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms; India (NBAIM/ ICAR) grant to R. G. The author RS also want to acknowledge CGCOST, Chhattisgarh, to financially support for ongoing research on microbial inoculants.

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  1. Department of Microbiology, CBSH, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, 263145, Pantnagar, Uttaranchal, India

    Deep Chandra Suyal & Reeta Goel

  2. Department of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Agriculture, Indira Gandhi Krishi VishvaVidyalaya, Raipur, Chhatisgarh, India

    Ravindra Soni & Santosh Sai

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Suyal, D.C., Soni, R., Sai, S., Goel, R. (2016). Microbial Inoculants as Biofertilizer. In: Singh, D., Singh, H., Prabha, R. (eds) Microbial Inoculants in Sustainable Agricultural Productivity. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2647-5_18

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