Environmental advantages:

• Harnesses atmospheric nitrogen and makes it available directly to the plants.
• Improves soil aggregation, permeability, and water holding capacity-thys reducing overall water usage.
• Detoxifies, conserves, and improves overall quality of water and the runoff tributaries.
• Organic fertilizers are renewable, biodegradable, sustainable, and environmentally friendly.

Advantages to Soil:

• Increases phosphorus uptake by solubilizing and releasing unavailable phosphorus.
• Improves soil properties and sustain soil fertility, can suppress soil-borne pathogens, accelerate the decomposition of organic wastes, increase the availability of mineral nutrients and useful organic compounds to plants.
• Enhance the activities of beneficial micro-organisms, e.g. mycorrhizae, nitrogen fixing bacteria etc.
• Serves as a catalyst to naturally detoxify and enrich the topsoil -which increases plant growth, yield, shelf-life and overall nutritional quality.
• Naturally remediates harmful substance -such as heavy metals, salinization, and agrochemicals-while restoring the microbial diversity of the topsoil.
• Helps to prevent the erosion of fertile topsoil -and can even convert desert and sodic environment into arable land.

Advantages to plants:

• Enhances root proliferation due to release of growth promoting hormones.
• Organic fertilizer is microbial inoculants that work as a bio-control measure in suppressing and/or controlling pests through the introduction of beneficial micro-organisms to soil and plants.
• Promotes photosynthesis and strengthens the vigor of plants, thus increasing their ability to withstand drought, floods, and temperature extremes.

Advantages to farmers:

• Enhances soil fertility and promotes growth, flooring, fruit development and ripening in crops. It can increase crop yields and improves crop quality as well as accelerating the breakdown of organic matter from crop residues. The population of beneficial micro-organisms in the soil is also increased helping to control soil disease through competitive exclusion.
• It maintains the natural habitat of soil .It increase crop yield by 30-30% replaces chemical nitrogen and phosphorus by 25% and stimulates plant growth.



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