Effectiveness of Nitroplus on selected high value crops
Torres, F. G. | Sison, M. L. Q., Philippines Univ. Los Banos, College, Laguna (Philippines). National Inst. of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
NitroPlus is a low cost technology, easy to use and does not require significantly different farming practices or labor requirements. However, in spite of these benefits, this technology does not reach the hands of resource poor farmers. Promotion and dissemination as well as marketing strategies have been weak and limited. Thus, there is an urgent need to promote these technologies by directly testing them in farmer's fields to demonstrate their cost effectiveness. This will allow farmers to see for themselves how these reasonable priced biological inputs will help them achieve the needed production increases, reduce production cost and at the same time, protect the environment. The Rhizobium species is a common rhizosphere bacteria. It is abundant in the vicinity of roots of both legume and non-legume crops. Aside from nitrogen fixation, some strains of rhizobia are also capable of promoting growth by producing growth hormones, phosphate solubilization and siderophone formation. The proponents have identified local strains of rhizobia possessing some of these growth promoting properties. The local rhizobial strains have been found to possess the ability to produce plant hormone indole-3-acetic acid (Sison and Torres, 2000). Local farmers have also reported that NitroPlus improved the growth of crops other than legumes.
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