Cumilla farmers benefiting from use of organic fertilizers

BSS, Cumilla :

Farmers of the district are benefiting from the use of the organic fertilizers on their land.

They are happy as crop production has increased due to the use of organic fertilizers.

Organic fertilizers are made from fungi. The land becomes fertile with that manure.

According to experts, fungicides are soil and crop friendly.

This fertilizer has almost all the qualities beneficial for a crop.

The use of this fertilizer, known as tricho compost, improves soil structure and texture.

It increases water retention and prevents wastage.

This fertilizer controls soil acidity and salinity.

It increases the yield and quality of crops.

That fertilizer feeds the harmful fungi in the soil, eating the beneficial fungi.

It protects crops from fungal attack.

Farmers benefit by increasing yield.

According to the sources of Upazila Agriculture Office, tricho compost is a type of organic fertilizer, whose main ingredient is a type of beneficial fungus called Trichoderma.

Tricho compost is made by mixing various organic materials, such as cow dung, chicken droppings, vegetable waste, cow dung, wood powder, corn bran, chitagur, ash, neem leaves and Trichoderma fungus spores in specific proportions and keeping them in the house for 40-45 days in a special way.