Benefit:

• Highly efficient in fixing atmospheric nitrogen.
• Improves soil texture, structure and microbial activity of soil.
• Helps to reduce expenditure on chemical nitrogenous fertilizers up to 25 %.
• The effective strain used in SUN BIO AZO fixes about 20 to 25 kg atmospheric nitrogen per hectare.
• Certain growth promoting substances released by these cultures are useful for increasing the seed germination, plant growth and ultimately the yield.
• In certain conditions they also exhibit anti-fungal activities and thereby fungal diseases may be prevented indirectly.
• About 20 to 25% increase of crop yield can be achieved with the use of these cultures.

Mode of Action

It is non symbiotic free living bacterium, which helps in Nitrogen fixation. Plants need nitrogen for their growth and Azotobacter fixes atmospheric nitrogen non-symbiotically. Therefore all plants, trees, vegetables, get benefited. The ammonia may be formed by the process called nitrification. In this process the Nitrates and Nitrites released by decaying organic matter are converted to Ammonium ions by the bacteria present in the soil. The ammonium ion that is produced by this reaction is in the form of nitrogen that is used by living systems in the synthesis of many bio-organic compounds.