Safal Compost - Introduction

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India has enough potential for providing the nutrients through animal dung base organic manures. Animal dung is plenty available with the Indian farmers, but hardly few farmers utilized it as processed and mature manure or in form of compost. Rest of farmers just apply it in the field without taken care as immature and un-decomposed material, which is high in temperature resulting in non-nutritive residues leading to release of harmful pathogenic microbes, besides that such immature material application (due its wide C: N ratio) its negatively affect on productivity due to created shortage of nitrogen in soil.This type of compost heaps is available in every village throughout the country that’s poorly performed for crop productivity and promotes the infestation of disease and insects. Its proper decomposition is the major and important issue for the country farmers particularly in Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat where buffalo’s population is high.

Organic manures maintain and restore the active soil life and health. These manures are important sources of plant nutrients, soil carbon conversation and beneficial microbial buildup in soil. But the available rural animal dung manure is made of poor quality due its un-decomposed process being very hot even after ten years lying in the heap. One dialog that is true with manure: compost should not be hot. If hot it is not consider as compost.

Organic carbon is the “Life-Glucose for dying-Soil” and mature compost is the master key for revival of soil health”. Organic manures maintain and restore soil life and sustainable crop productivity and is the important sources of plant nutrients that help in soil life and sustainable crop productivity and is the important sources of plant nutrients that help in soil carbon conservation and maintains soil health buildup through beneficial micro-organisms. Mature compost should be cool, soft texture, fair smell, dark brown color, non pathogenic, crop buster, capable to good water holding, carbon recharging, full with enzymatic activity, hormones, and antibiotics for better plant growth promoting properties.

Composting is an attractive proposition for turning on-farm organic waste materials into a good farm resource.[ composting is an exothermic aerobic biological process that stabilizes biodegradable organic matter (BOM). Decomposition rates are affected by all factors that commonly affect microbial growth, i.e. carbon nitrogen ratio, oxygen supply, moisture, pH, temperature, and nutrient levels]. A measure of compost that is conducive for crop growth refers to maturity representing relationship between compost quality and crop growth. On the other hand stability refers to the aerobic biological activity, representing relationship between compost quality and biological activity within the compost.

To avoiding the boring and laborious process of composting methodology, a simple, cost effective, lest laborious, short time maturity, good quality, quick field response base technology may be the substitute of urea, interesting, easy to operate and easy adoptive to farmers. Time saving composting methodology, which readily releases the nutrients, suitable production technology to Indian farmers, is the hour.

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