{"id":797,"date":"2008-12-19T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=797"},"modified":"2010-05-11T05:24:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T05:24:52","slug":"algae-bio-fertilizer-boosts-sugarcane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/algae-bio-fertilizer-boosts-sugarcane.html","title":{"rendered":"Algae Bio-fertilizer Boosts Sugarcane Yield in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018eco-friendly\u00b4 algae cultivation technology pioneered by Bhavnagar based Central Salt and Marine Chemical Research Institute (CSMCRI) is emerging as a booster dose to enhance sugarcane yield.<\/p>\n<div>\u201cUsing the thicking agent derived from this unique algae (Kappaphycus alvarezi) cultivation technology, sugarcane yield in a 1000 acre field shot up by 30% during first field trials conducted in Karnataka,and the second field trials are slated to start on 5,000 acres of land each in the state of Tamilnadu and Uttar Pradesh,\u201d CSMCRI Director Pushpito K. Ghosh said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u201cAlso commercial skilled production of bio-fertilizer using this algae will kick start soon. The production volumes of bio-fertilizer will be as large as 20,000 tonnes,\u201d he added.Presently, this unique algae is being cultivated in Tamilnadu in a big way, after CSMCRI licensed the technology to Pepsico Food.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/2008\/12\/11180117\/8216Ecofriendly8217-alg.html\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>By the way, have you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/feed\/rss.xml\">subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?<\/a>; How about <a href=\"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/mlist\/user\/subscribe.php\">joining the Oilgae mailing list?<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/forum\">our forum to discuss on with others<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. The \u2018eco-friendly\u00b4 algae cultivation technology pioneered by Bhavnagar based Central Salt and Marine Chemical Research Institute (CSMCRI) is emerging as a booster dose to enhance sugarcane yield. \u201cUsing the thicking agent derived from this unique algae (Kappaphycus alvarezi) cultivation technology, sugarcane yield in a 1000 acre field shot up by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-cultivation","category-algae-fuel-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}