National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The present study was conducted to study the biological properties of soil under zero budget natural farming (ZBNF) system, where only indigenous cow urine and dung based on-farm produced formulations viz. jeevamrit, beejamrit and ghanjeevamrit were used, in comparison to conventional farming (CF) practices with recommended fertilizer and pesticide doses in cauliflower ecosystem. ZBNF resulted in higher population of micro-flora. The population of bacteria, fungus and actinomycetes under ZBNF increased over the cropping period by 11.36, 2.04 and 8.72 in 2018-19, and 23.69, 12.04 and 24.83 per cent in 2019-20, respectively, which was more than that under CF system 8.23, 2.44 and 3.34 per cent in 2018-19 and 12.87, 2.13 and 8.87 per cent in 2019-20, respectively. Activity of soil enzymes viz. dehydrogenase, phosphatase and urease under ZBNF increased by 3.01, 0.81, 3.84and 14.73, 1.42 and 14.01per cent, during 2018-19 and 2019-20respectively, which was much higher as compared to the CF system, where respective increase in enzymatic activity was1.85, 0.98, 2.51 and 3.38, 1.37 and 5.08 per cent during 2018-19 and 2019-20. An increment recorded in arthropods population. The increase in Hymenoptera, Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Isoptera, and Isopoda was 66.6, 0, 100, 33.3 and 200 per cent in ZBNF system, while in CF system, only Hymenoptera, Isoptera, and Isopodashowed an increase of 50, 50, and 100 per cent during first year experiment. During the second year also ZBNF showed higher increase in the arthropods population.
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