Main description:

Biofertilizers, Volume One: Advances in Bio-inoculants provides state-of-the-art descriptions of various approaches, techniques and basic fundamentals of BI used in crop fertilization practices. The book presents research within a relevant theoretical framework to improve our understanding of core issues as applied to natural resource management. Authored by renowned scientists actively working on bio-inoculant, biofertilizer and bio-stimulant sciences, the book addresses the scope of inexpensive and energy neutral bio-inoculant technologies and the impact regulation has on biofertilizer utilization. This book is a valuable reference for agricultural/environmental scientists in academic and corporate environments, graduate and post-graduate students, regulators and policymakers.

Contents:

1. General concepts
2. Production technology, properties and quality management
3. Status of research and application of biofertilizers: Global scenario
4. Mechanisms and applications
5. Quality control
6. Setting up a biofertiliser unit
7. Relevance in organic agriculture
8. Global scenario of biofertilizer production and consumption
9. Quality standards for production and marketing of biofertilizers
10. Constraints in biofertilizer production