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    SEAWEED FERTILIZERS IN MODERN AGRICULTURE

    Research · October 2018


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    SEAWEED FERTILIZERS IN MODERN AGRICULTURE

    Ruban P, Govindasamy C

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    Seaweed Fertilizers in Modern Agriculture


    *aRuban P and bC.Govindasamy
    *a
    Department of Biotechnology, Shri Nehru Maha Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science
    Malumachampatti, Coimbatore-641050
    b
    Department of Fisheries Management, Science Campus, Alagappa University,
    Karaikudi-630 003.
    Corresponding Mail: [email protected]

    Abstract

    Seaweed is a multicellular marine algae, it’s very important for the marine living renewable source,
    seaweeds wildly used for gelling and stabilizing agents for many food and pharmaceutical industries. Soil
    fertility it depends upon the fertilizer requirement of the plant or crop, now a day’s lot of chemical fertilizers
    commercially available but the growth, yield and fertility of the soil are very much reduced/damaged. Recent
    studies proved that seaweed fertilizer very much better than other fertilizer. The seaweed fertilizers contained
    a lot of nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, potash and plant growth hormones and trace element. This
    seaweed fertilizer is used to enhance the seed germination and plant growth/crop yield.

    Keywords: Seaweed, Fertilizers, Plant Growth, Fertility

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    1. Introduction
    Along with population rise, there should be a rise in the agro product as well.
    Though the fertilizer industries are fast growing to compete with the rise in food
    production, the rise in fertilizer product is not up to the mark (Jeswani,1999). According to
    the World Economic Outlook report, World fertilizer nutrients consumption is estimated to
    reach 186 900 000 tones in 2014, up by 2.0 percent over 2013. World demand for total
    fertilizer nutrients is estimated to grow at 1.8 percent and is forecast to reach 50.21 million
    tones by 2020.
    As a drawback of chemical fertilizers is becoming more apparent, farmers are
    gradually turning towards organic fertilizers, with escalating demand, availability of
    organic fertilizers from one or two sources is not sufficient. To meet the increasing demand
    many viable options as possible have to be explored and one of such option is the use of
    seaweeds as fertilizer (Chhaya, 1997; Green, 2015). Seaweed is flowering plants which
    present in the marine environment, Seagrass beds are very important in the marine
    ecosystem (Govindasamy et al., 2013; Ruban, 2013). Seaweed extracts have been marketed
    for several years as a fertilizer additives and beneficial results from their use have been
    reported many claims have been made for seaweed extracts including better seed
    germination and deeper root development, increased frost resistance, increased nutrient
    uptake and changes in plant tissue composition, increased resistance to fungal diseases,
    reduced incidence of insect attack, higher yields, longer shelf -life of produce and improved
    animal health when livestock is grazed on treated crops or pasture (Blunden, 1972; Zodape,
    2001; Govindasamy et al., 2011). It has been shown that the recital of seaweed manure is
    greater to the predictable organic manure viz., farmyard manure. Therefore seaweed extract
    used as a fertilizer and is being given to be a source of microelements including trace
    elements.
    Extracts derived from marine algae have been used over the past decades on various
    crops to help growth and development. Interest in these seaweed concentrates on the

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    agricultural system is focused on their use as an economical source of naturally occurring


    plant growth controller. Much of the advantage from the application of seaweed extract has
    been accredited to the presence of the plant hormones, especially cytokinins. Various
    seaweed concentrates contain significant amount of cytokinin in totaling to other
    phytohormones (Bokil, 1974; Sharma et al., 2014).
    2. Some of the Methods for the Preparation of Liquid Seaweed Fertilizer (LSF)
    Seaweed extract is an organic manure contained amino acids, antibiotics,
    gibberellins auxins and other vitamins and trace elements in it. Some of this gist is
    decomposed by heat and hence it is necessary that they should be conserved if they are to
    benefit the crops. The method of extraction and the species used could be of great
    importance to the plant growth activity of the extract. Many seaweed constituents are
    known to undergo marked seasonal variations, which are being considered, in both
    commercial seaweed extract production and in the evaluation of inconsistent field trial
    results (Muller-Feuga et al., 2012; Satish et al., 2015). Many species have been reported to
    be used for the preparation of LSF such as Furcelaria fastigiata, Sargassum plagiophyllum,
    Ascophyllunt nodosum, Dttrvillea potatorum, Sargassum tvightiii (Myklested, 1964)
    Samgasstun plagiophyllum, Padina pavonica, Champia, Laminaria saccharina, Fucus
    serrants, Pterocladia, Ecklonia radiate (Bhosle et al.,1975).

    Challen and Hemingway (1966) and Jayasinghe et al. (2016) have described the
    method wherein two samples of commercial seaweed meal, one derived
    from Aseoplivlhun nodosum and another derived from Furus vesiculosus were used to
    prepare extract according to the following method: The powder was mixed with distilled
    water and allowed to stand. The mixture was boiled, allowed to stand for some time, then
    passed through a fine sieve to remove the solids and the liquor obtained was centrifuged.
    The solids from the sieve and centrifuge were pressed and the liquor obtained was mixed
    with the main liquor. The combined liquors were then concentrated under reduced pressure

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    to yield a brown fluid. The percentage of total solids was determined and the extract diluted
    with sufficient water to contain the same percentage of total solids as the commercial
    seaweed extract. The extract of dry seaweed was further diluted when required.

    3. Reference:

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    9. Govindasamy C, M. Arulpriya, K. Anantharaj, P. Ruban and R. Srinivasan. Seasonal


    variations in seagrass biomass and productivity in Palk Bay, Bay of Bengal, India.
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