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JournalItem Open Access Bio-enhancers: A potential tool to improve soil fertility, plant health in organic production of horticultural crops(Progressive horticulture, 2013-09) Pathak, R.K.; R.A.RamIndiscriminate use of agro-chemicals during the last 5-6 decades has adversely affected the soil fertility, crop productivity, produce quality and particularly the environment. Annually India is loosing nearly 0.8 million tones of nitrogen, 1.8 millions tones of Phosphorus and 26.3 million tones of potassium (Annonymous, 2011). Soil organic carbon content in most of the Indian soils has been reduced to > 0.5 per cent. The green revolution is exhibiting second generation problem owing to over exploitation and mis management of soil. Under these circumstances, maintenance of soil fertility and crop productivity are the major constraints in agriculture. Excessive mining of micronutrients have led to the deficiency of micro nutrients in one or the other parts of the country. As a result fertigation is becoming popular in most part of the states. It is pertinent to pinpoint that at present, most of the soluble fertilizers are imported in the country and these are very expensive, beyond the reach of the common farmers. For number of nutrients, soluble fertilizers are not available. Hence, this requires change in mind set for addressing this issue. After closely working with Organic Farming Systems for over a decade, we are of the view that “Bio enhancers” could be a cheap and alternative tool to resolve many issues including cheap and effective alternative for fertigation. In organic production systems, there is always a challenge of how to improve soil fertility, crop productivity and management of pests by organic techniques. Use of organic liquid preparations has been an age old practice in India. On farm produced Kunapajala, prepared by fermenting animal flesh along with herbal products used to be an established technique in ancient India. As an alternative, number of organic farmers devised organic boosters based on local experiences and gave specific names such as Amritpani, Panchagavya, Beejamrita, Jiwamrita etc. Similarly, in other organic farming systems, few effective preparations such as BD-500, BD-501, Cow Pat Pit, Biodynamic liquid manures and in Homa Organic Farming: Agnihotra ash enriched water and Biosol are effective tools being used by number of organizations. It is interesting to note that in all these preparations, the basic ingredients are cow based products. In order to give generic name, hence forth, these are named as “Bio enhancer” which is almost new to the world and scientific community. Review of available literature with bio enhancer indicates that there is immense scope for its promotion in agriculture. Hence, we have tried to review the available information with objectives to communicate scientific community to initiate systematic research, extension agencies to promote these as cheap alternatives of agro chemicals and farmers to prepare their own products and utilize them as per requirement.ArticleItem Open Access Comparative evaluation of crop productivity and profitability under traditional farming system in Northern plains of India(2013-11-19) Rai, R.B.; Dhama, K.; Chakraborti, S.; R.A.Ram; Singh, Balvir; Tiwari, R.; Saminathan, M.; Damodaran, T.ArticleItem Open Access critical review of indigenous technologies for organic farming in in horticultural crops(Organic farming news letter, 2010-06) Pathak, R.K.; R.A.Ram; Garg, N.; Kishun, R.; Bhriguvanshi, S.R.; Sharma, S.Institutional PublicationsItem Open Access Cultivating aonla organically(DKMA, New Delhi, 2005-04) Pathak, R.K.; Shukla, S.K.; R.A.RAM; Pandey, D.Institutional PublicationsItem Open Access Cultivating horticultural crops organically(DKMA, New Delhi, 2005-04) Pathak, R.K.; R.A.Ram; Shukla, S.K.JournalItem Open Access Effect of cluster setting on yield of 'Dashehari' mango (Mangifera indica)(ICAR, NEW DELHI, 2004-04) R.A.Ram; Rajput, M.S.JournalItem Open Access Effect of controlled-release fertilizers on growth, yield and fruit quality of guava cv. sardar in Ustochrepts(ICAR, DKMA, NEW DELHI, 1999) R.A.Ram; Rajput, M.S.; Bhriguvanshi, S.R.JournalItem Open Access Effect of foliar application of magnesium and some micro-nutrients on growth, yield and fruit quality of mandarin orange (Citrus Reticulata Blanco)(ICAR-IARI, NEW DELHI, 2000) R.A.Ram; Bose, T.K.JournalItem Open Access Effect of foliar spray of urea and zinc on growth and yield of mandarian orange (Citrus Reticulata Blanco)(ICAR, DKMA, NEW DELHI, 1994) R.A.Ram; Bose, T.K.Institutional PublicationsItem Open Access Effect of foliar spray of urea and zinc on growth and yield of mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata Blanco)(Indian journal of horticulture, 1994-09) R.A.Ram; Bose, T.K.Institutional PublicationsItem Open Access Effect of frequent winter rains on fruit quality of two commercial cultivars of Guava (Psidium Guajaval)(Annals of Agricultural Research, 2000) R.A.Ram; Rajput, M.S.Institutional PublicationsItem Open Access Effect of nitrogen, phosphorus potassium on fruit quality of Banana Cv. Campierganj Local (Musa ABBB)(South Indian Horticulture, 1988) R.A.Ram; J.PrasadInstitutional PublicationsItem Open Access Effect of organic and bio-fertilizers on growth, yield and fruit quality of Guava CV. Allahabad safeda(International Journal Mendel) R.A.Ram; Rajput, M.S.Institutional PublicationsItem Open Access Effect of organic and bio-fertilizers on growth, yield and fruit quality of guava cv. allahabad safeda(Asia Science Conference, 1997) Rajput, M.S.; R.A.RamInstitutional PublicationsItem Open Access Effect of organic manures and biofertilizers on growth yield and fruit quality of mango cv Dahehari(International Journal Mendel, 1998) Rajput, M.S.; R.A.RamInstitutional PublicationsItem Open Access Evaluation of eco-friendly antagonists isolated from leaf based liquid biodynamics pesticides against guava wilt disease caused by Fusarium sp.(Journal of Eco-friendly Agriculture, Lucknow, 2009-01) Gupta, V.K.; Misra, A.K.; Pandey, B.K.; R.A.Ram; Misra, S.P.; Chauhan, U.K.ArticleItem Open Access Exploratory study on using rural poultry as a source of bio control agent for plantation and some vegetables(International Journal of Current Research, 2013-09-01) Rai, R B; Dhama, K; Chakraborti, S; Damodaran, Thukkaram; Singh, Balvir; Ali, Hamid; Rai, Sweta; Wani, Yaqoob; Ram Awadh, RamInstitutional PublicationsItem Open Access Fruit growth in mango (Mangifera indica)(ICAR-DKMA, New Delhi, 1999-11) R.A.Ram; Rajput, M.S.