Nursery cum algal production
Nursery cum algal production: Farmers can produce algae along with seedlings in their nurseries. If 320 m2 of land are allotted to prepare a nursery, an additional 40m2alongside can be prepared for algal production as described above.
- By the time rice seedlings are ready for transplantation about 15-20 kg of algal material will be available.
- This much quantity of algal mass will be sufficient to inoculate one and half hectares of area.
- If every farmer produces the algal material required to inoculate his own land then he will reduce the cost of algal inoculum required to be purchased. So also one can cut the cost of chemical fertilizers to be applied as recommended.