Shivzen Zeofertilers

The major component of health is decided by what type of food we eat everyday and who grown the crops and how it's been grown. In the modern world, people like fast food and hence, many agriculture industries pushing for fast crops by avoiding natural farming. Which inturn spoiling our soil health as well as human health. To bring back both soil and human health we are manufacturing the organic fertilizers under the Shivzen Zeofertilizers brand. Our company is also intended to minimise the cost of the cultivation with improvement in the crop yield. Scientific experiments were conducted on our production as a testimony. Joint director of Agriculture (JDA) from the Department of Agriculture, Government of Karnataka selected Shivzen Zeofertilizers products among the competitors based on the novelty and usases to start the manufacturing of organic fertilizers through back ended subsidy. Bank of Baroda (BOB) trusted Shivzen concept and future products and helped financially to start the project in agreement with the department of Agriculture, Karnataka.

Introduction

The word “zeolites” was coined by Swedish geologist Axel Cronstedt and it literally means a “boiling stone”

Zeolites (clinoptilolite) are mixture of nanomaterials made-up of aluminosilicates. The latter material helps storing more available water and nutrients required for plants through their unique adsorption, ion-exchange, molecular sieve and catalytic properties.

“Zeofertilizers” term coined by ShivZen company and these are novel organic fertilizers capable of enhancing the plant growth and yield, while reducing the fertilizer cost and total fertilizer used per crop cycle

Why Zeofertilizers ?

Improves the water holding capacity (WHC), water use efficiency (WUE), cation exchange capacity (CEC) and macro-micro nutrient holding capacity of the soil, which in turn helps plant roots to absorb the essential nutrients for their growth, metabolism and increasing the yield.

Increasing the soil nutrient through fortification by combined effort of nanotechnology and Zeolites not only improves crop production but also biofortification of the agricultural yield (Elemike et al., 2019)

Usage of chemical fertilizers can be reduced by 25% if the soils are amended with natural zeolite in Maize (Nur Aainaa et al., 2018) The soil application of Zeofertilizers improved the nutrient balance and salinity stress tolerance

Case study: Preliminary experimental results

Experiment was conducted using randomized complete block design (RCBD) with 4% (L1), 8% (L2) and 12% (L3) natural zeofertilizers and without zeofertilizers (L0) treated growth medium and the experiment was repeated twice (Z1 and Z2).

For each treatment 25 seedlings were planted on 25 individuals 3-gallon pots (considered as 25 replications). Plants were irrigated using essential (micro and macro) nutrients.

Leachate was collected at three growth stages, early stage (15 days after transplanting), vegetative stage (45 days after transplanting) and pre-flowering stage (60 days after transplanting) from each biological replicates for elemental analysis.

Phenotypic observations were recorded for plant height, stalk girth width, shoot biomass, root biomass and yields traits at pre-flowering stage and post flowering stages.

Economic impact on farmers

➤ Approximately 27% improvement on crop yield.

➤ Nearly 25-30% reduction on use of organic or inorganic fertilizer.

➤ Improvement on nutrient use efficiency (NUE), water holding capacity (WHC), water use efficiency (WUE), cation exchange capacity (CEC) and soil health (microbiome).

➤ Helps in crop bio-fortification, which indirectly helps in improve the consumer health.

➤ Farmers can reduce the fertilizer application for every alternate cycle of crop cultivation.

➤ Reduction in fertilizers cost of cultivation while improving the economic returns.

Zeofertilizer manufacturing Process

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Health is heavily influenced by our food and how crops are grown. Modern fast food demands drive unsustainable farming, harming soil and human health. Shivzen Zeofertilizers aims to restore both by producing organic fertilizers, enhancing crop yield, and reducing cultivation costs.

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