1. Anaerobic digestion, or biodigestion, involves the microbial degradation of organic materials in an oxygen-free environment. Feedstocks for anaerobic digestion include livestock manures, crop residues, culled fruit and vegetables, food waste, and other organic by-products. The process produces...
  2. 2010-07-20 One high quality and universally available source of all the major macronutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) is human urine. Using human urine as fertilizer is not unprecedented, but for various reasons in most countries it is not commonly considered as an option, especially for growing...
  3. 2017-08-01 Faced with the challenges of smallholders in terms of agricultural inputs and the limitations of mineral fertilizer, ECHO's West Africa Impact Center has provided farmers with practical and economic knowledge. One example of this is the technique of manufacturing organic liquid fertilizer.
  4. This animation presents four steps to ensure better harvests in arid and semi-arid climates. Through timely and deep plowing, micro dosing manure and practicing response fertilization, farmers in these regions can see increases to their crop yields while managing input costs. Scientific...
  5. Among significant new technologies introducted in this volume are development and current status of the fertilizer solutions industry; advanced modes of transport including peopleline distribution of fertilizers; development and role of delayed release fertilizer materials; and formation and...
  6. Key Resource 2013-01-01 2 Copies Inside cover & preface of this book states title is Applied Natural Farming: Principles, Concepts & Appropriate Techniques in Tropics. This book has been compiled together on the increasing information about natural farming practice and how it is adapting and developing its own...
  7. Key Resource 2011-01-01 Interest in natural farming practices has grown in recent years among farmers, development workers, educators, and other key promoters throughout Southest Asia, This booklet, also known as "Applied Natural Farming Cartoon" covers with illustrations the principles, concepts, and appropriate...
  8. 2006-01-01 The Handbook of Microbial Biofertilizers provides in-depth coverage of all major microbial biofertilizers (rhizobia, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, and cyanobacteriaas well as new and emerging growth promoters (endophytes). It examines the role of microbes in growth promotion, bioprotectors, and...
  9. Abstract,Research institute of Organic agriculture FiBL, 2018 Application of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) is a simple technique for improving the growth of date palms and other tree seedlings (pomegranate, olive, argan) or medicinal shrubs (lavender, rosemary) at nursery stage and to...
  10. Access Agriculture Training Video For healthy crops you need a healthy soil, because a healthy soil contains many good microbes and earthworms. To prepare biofertilizer for half a hectare, you need 10 kg fresh cow dung, cow urine, flour from chickpeas or another pulse, jaggery or unrefined sugar,...