Efficient native strains of rhizobia improved nodulation and productivity of French bean ( L.) under rainfed condition.

Biological nitrogen fixation is the most important eco-friendly approach to nitrogenous fertilizer management in the rhizosphere. is considered the most important symbiotic N-fixing microorganism. Native strains of perform better than the non-native strains by getting ambient conditions for growth and proliferation.

Integrated Nutrient Management Improves the Growth and Yield of Rice and Greengram in a Rice-Greengram Cropping System under the Coastal Plain Agro-Climatic Condition.

Continuous mono-cropping of rice has resulted in decline or stagnation of yield output due to the occurrence of multiple nutrient deficiencies and worsening of soil physicochemical properties accompanying increased pressure of insect pests and diseases. The basic concept of integrated nutrient management (INM) is maintenance or adjustment of soil fertility and supply of plant nutrients to an optimum level for sustaining the desired crop productivity through optimisation of benefits from all possible sources of plant nutrients in an integrated way. Augmenting a rice-based cropping system with pulses is a prevalent and indigenous cropping system under rainfed conditions.