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Organic Potato in Nalanda (Bihar): Using Eco-Friendly Agri. Bios Inputs

M.D. Ojha and Bholanath Saha

Abstract

Organic agriculture seeks to augment ecological processes that foster plant nutrition while conserving soil and water resources. Organic systems eliminate agrichemicals and reduce other external inputs to improve the environment as well as farm economics. It is a production system, which favours maximum use of organic materials like crop residues, FYM, compost, green manure, oil cakes, bio-fertilizers, bio-gas slurry etc. to enhance crop production and improve soil health. Organic production systems are based on specific and precise standards of production which aim at achieving agro-ecosystems which are socially and ecologically sustainable. As demand for organically grown food has been growing rapidly and significant proportion of consumers believe that organic food is qualitatively better than non-organic, the present study showed not only the quality of the produce but also produces quantitatively higher yield that touched the world record production in Nalanda, Bihar

Keyword: Organic potato; Chemical fertilizers; Potato yield;

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