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Agriculture · Q144

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Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 144

Q144

Which of the following is a biofertilizer?

A.
Green algae
Answer
B.
FYM
C.
Compost
D.
All of these

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
Green alga is a biofertilizer.
Blue-green algae (BGA) are an easily available and economically cheap resource material for production and use as biofertilizers.
These are free-living, photoautotrophic micro-organisms, many of which also fix atmospheric nitrogen and are found in abundance in rice fields.