| Fertilizer |
Characteristics |
| Vermicompost |
- Vermicompost is developed using earthworms.
- Earthworms consume organic matter and excrete it as cast.
- This cast is used as vermicompost.
- It is rich in plant nutrients and beneficial bacteria and vescular arbuscular micorrhiza (VAM) fungi.
- Depending upon the types of base material used, vermicomopst, on an average contains 3% nitrogen, 1% phosphorus and 1.5% potassium.
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| Farm compost |
- Farm waste, like sugarcane trash, paddy straw, plant debris, weeds, or other waste materials are, generally, used by farmers to get compost.
- Such types of compost are called ‘farm compost’.
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| Farmyard manure |
- It is well-decomposed dung of cattle, urine along litter.
- Usually, dung and urine of animals along with their litter and waste feed are collected and placed in a trench daily and when filled in, it is covered with soil.
- It decomposes in two three months when it is considered usable in the field.
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| Green manures |
- Green manure crop is raised and turned into the soil for decomposition.
- Green manures improve the physical structure of the soil, as well as, soil fertility.
- Crops, like dhaincha and sunn hemp, are used as green manure.
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