Legume inoculation: A consultancy report

Abstract

The supply of nitrogen to the crops is one of the greatest problem before the developing countries like ours. The synthetic N fertilizers are costly and in scarcity due to the non-availability and high prices of raw materials. Besides this, the poor economy of Bangladesh farmers does not allow to use recommended doses of fertilizers due to low cost-benefit ratio, where as the excessive use of fertilizers is creating pollution in developed countries. Heavy application of ammonium sulfate also makes soils acidic. Therefore, scientists of both developed and developing countries are interested to search the alternate technology to reduce the dependence on the synthetic N fertilizers.