Conversion of Fruit Waste for Biofertilizer

Authors

  • Preeti Rawat Student, Department of Biotechnolgy Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Punjab ,India

Abstract

Abundant use of chemical fertilizers has attracted the attention of everyone in across the globe as the
use of inorganic fertilizers is leading to depletion of the valuable nutrients and microbial flora from the
soil and also causing many environmental hazards. To overcome this environmental hazard and protect
soil, biofertilizers provide the promising solution to the problem. Everyone is fascinated with the word
organic and prefers organically produced products. The organic products are produced with the help
of biofertilizers. These biological fertilizers are produced by the number of methods using variety of
raw material. In this paper, authors have tried to produce biofertilizer using waste fruit peels. The
biological fertilizer made from fruit peel restrain different properties like antioxidative, antiinflammatory,
antimicrobial, nutraceutical, polyphenolic, and many more. The fruit scarps helps in
increasing the nutrient level of soil and as well as manage waste also. The fertilizer produced from the
waste fruit material maintains nutrient pool in soil.

 

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Published

2021-04-15

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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2021)

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