Blue Green Algae

Introduction

Blue-green algae are a group of prokaryotic, photosynthetic mircobies variously named as Myxophycease, Cyanophycease & Cyanobacteria. During the course of evolution, some of these organism have continued to retain the primitive character of utilizing molecular nitrogen from air at the expense of solar energy. This process is known as Biological Nitrogen Fixation. The nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria generally have specialized structures known as hetrocysts, which are requested as the sites for the conversion of nitrogen to ammonia. The blue algae have minimum growth requirements needing only diffused light, simple inorganic nutrients and moisture. The algal inoculants has shown to increase the fertilizer utilization efficiency(FUE) of the crop plants through exudation of growth promoting substances and preventing a part of the applied fertilizer nitrogen from being lost. This is a very important contribution in view of the progressive decline in the FUE of food crops observed since 1970.

Raw Materials:

Commonly available salt as sources of minerals & trace elements.Paddy straw as carrier. All these raw materials are indigenously available throughout the country.

Techno Economics:

Plant Cost-Rs. 76.16(in lakhs)

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