Bio Fertilizer
NATURE POWER our flagship Bio-Fertilizer has been formulated to contain both Nitrogen fixers and Phosphate solubilizing organisms. Following are the characteristics of NATURE POWER:
NATURE POWER Bio-Fertilizer's nitrogen will continue to serve for increasing grain production into the foreseeable future but efforts should also be oriented towards augmenting biological nitrogen fixation mediated by microorganisms. An average acre of grain legumes like soybeans, beans, or peas provides sufficient protein for 1000-2000 days for one person, whereas an average acre of plant materials converted to animal protein like beef and poultry provides only for 75-250 days.
As the per capita income increases the demand on animal protein also increases accompanied by a several fold decrease in the intake of vegetable protein. Therefore, in the affluent nations where the per capita income is low and consequently, the intake of vegetable protein is more pronounced.
Accurate estimates of annual turnover of nitrogen in the biosphere vary from 100 to 200 million tons. The ratio between chemical fixed nitrogen and NATURE POWER fixed nitrogen ranges approximately from 1:4 to 1:2.5 and within NATURE POWER fixation, the legume fixation is equivalent to or at least half that of industrial fixation. The amounts of kg N2 fixed/ha/yr for individual legumes has been roughly estimated as follows: 125-335 for alfalfa, 85-190 for red clover, 80-150 for peas, 65-115 for soybean, 65-130 for cowpea, and 90-155 for vetch.
The richness of nitrogen in the atmosphere (78) is of no significance unless it is converted in the form of ammonia or nitrate and fixes them in the soil. These nitrogen fixing organisms belong to different genera like Azotobacter, Azospirillum, Acetobacter, Rhizobium, Azolla, Cynobacteria etc. which are core ingredients of NATURE POWER.
Next to nitrogen phosphorus is a vital nutrient for plants and microorganisms. Soils containing high organic matter are also rich in organic forms of phosphorus.
Several soil bacteria, particularly those belonging to the genera Pseudomonas and Bacillus and Fungi belonging to the genera Pencillium and Aspergillus's possess the ability to bring insoluble phosphates in soil to soluble forms by secreting acids such as formic, acetic, lactic, glycolic, fumanic and succinic acids. These acids lower the PH and bring about the dissolution of bound forms of phosphate, which can be directly utilized by the plants.
In the general agricultural practices, most of the applied super phosphate remains unutilized in the form of rock phosphate in the soil. Hence, it is recommended to use these phosphate solubilizers, which are in NATURE POWER along with the mineral fertilizers. These organisms can solubilise around 50% of rock phosphate when used along with single super phosphate; On the other hand the available phosphate in single super phosphate is around 15 - 16% only.