India has a vast potential of agricultural wastes. The major agricultural sources are livestock and crop residues, tree wastes and weeds. With the introduction of high yielding varieties and adoption of intensive system of cropping, large quantities of crop residues (1500 lakh tone per year) along with huge amount of grasses and weeds are discarded as waste. The direct application of these wastes to the soil-plant system for crop production may create potential hazards related to nutrient management, trace elements, trace organic chemicals, pathogens and physical property of soil. Moreover, because of their...
Saturday, 6 May 2017
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