Enhancing sustainable solutions for food security in Jordan: using bacterial biofertilizer to promote plant growth and crop yield
by RSS Media Centre
11th Jul 2024
Abstract
Jordan suffers from agricultural land degradation, water scarcity, increasing in population, and the huge gap between production and consumption. Boosting of food production to meet the demand is one of the solutions. Biofertilizers are substances include beneficial microorganisms (e.g., bacteria) that are important in agricultural soil to improve yield through different mechanisms. The aim of this experiment is to study the impact of using locally produced-microorganisms along with chemical fertilizers to improve the yield of cucumber planting.
Citation
Enhancing sustainable solutions for food security in Jordan: Using bacterial biofertilizer to promote plant growth and crop yield. M. Mashatleh, A. Assayed, H. Alhaj Ali, R. Al Abaddi, and M. Alrwashdeh, Front. Sustain. Food Syst., 2024, 8, 1423224.
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