An experiment was conducted to study the effects of paddy straw and rice husk mulching on acid lime during 2014-2015 in Randomized Block Design compared with control (without mulch). The study revealed that the microbial population of the soil was found to be highly significant. The higher microbial population count for bacteria was observed in paddy straw mulch (83.45 × 105 cfu/g) as compared to rice husk mulch (74.88 × 105 cfu/g) while minimum was found in control (14.06 × 105 cfu/g). Likewise, the highest microbial population count for fungi was observed in rice husk mulch (119.34 ×105 cfu/g) as compared to paddy straw mulch (54.77 ×105 cfu/g) while no microbial growth of fungi was observed under control (no mulch).
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2022: 6.012
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