Azolla - a nitrogen source for rice farmers

Azolla, a small free-floating fern associated with the nitrogen-fixing alga Anabaena azollae, is used by rice farmers in Asia as a natural, low-cost source of fertilizer nitrogen. However, farmers elsewhere in the tropics have not been so ready to...

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
Format: News Item
Language:Inglés
Published: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation 1992
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/45783
Description
Summary:Azolla, a small free-floating fern associated with the nitrogen-fixing alga Anabaena azollae, is used by rice farmers in Asia as a natural, low-cost source of fertilizer nitrogen. However, farmers elsewhere in the tropics have not been so ready to...