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Bio-fertilizers a Future Prospect Towards Sustainable Agricultural Development

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A tremendous increase in the human population year after year has raised a threat to fresh fruits, vegetables, food grains and nutritional security all over the world. As the agricultural land is limited and is even reducing drastically due to the expansion of industrialization and urbanization over the time. Therefore, it is need of the time that agricultural production and quality should be improved considerably in the next few years to meet the ever-increasing demand leading to nutritional food security. Dependency on chemicals like pesticides, weedicides and chemical fertilizers in past years, for more crop production have certainly damaged both human health and the ecosystem to great severity. Nature has its plan for sustainable growth and development and so are the biofertilizers, which are ultimate gift of nature to our agriculture as a replacement for pesticides, weedicides, and synthetic fertilizers. Biofertilizers contain microbes in a living form which encourages the sufficient supply of nutrients and growth promoters to the plants and ensures their good growth, development, and regulation of physiological activities. Living microbes used for the preparation of bio-fertilizers have specific function; they augment plant growth, development, and reproduction. In the above view, bio-fertilizers being important constituents of sustainable agricultural development can play a vital role in conserving long-term soil fertility, soil health, and sustainability in crop production in India as well as internationally.

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Kumar, D., Dalal, R.P.S., Arora, I. (2022). Bio-fertilizers a Future Prospect Towards Sustainable Agricultural Development. In: Mahdi, S.S., Singh, R. (eds) Innovative Approaches for Sustainable Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90549-1_5

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