Biofertilizers
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To meet the demand for more food, farmers have to adopt new technologies, hybrid plants, insecticides to increase soil fertility & productivity etc. Most of the farmers in our country are not educated. They find the use of chemical fertilizers the only means of increasing plant productivity without any knowledge of the adverse effects of synthetic chemical fertilizers on the ecosystem. Moreover, the use of chemical fertilizers costs a lot & due to non-availability of chemical fertilizers farmers have to suffer a lot. When biological agents are used to increases soil quality to augment plant productivity, the biological agents are then called biofertilizer. Various types of biofertilizers are now used universally in place of chemical fertilizers without harming the natural ecological balance. It costs less compared to chemical fertilizers. But, in Bangladesh, farmers have little knowledge of biofertilizers.. No government has yet shown any interest to set up a biofertilizer production plant in Bangladesh. The government should encourage national & international companies to invest in biofertilizer production.
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