Enhancing Crop Yields using Trichoderma with Organic Amendment Integration

Deepu Kumar, Puja Kundu & Mougdha Dutta

Trichoderma has been used in combination with a wide range of organic amendments such as vermicompost, farmyard manure, green manure, biochar, oil cakes, jivamrit (an organic formulation), essential oils and silicon based inputs as an important ecofriendly method to enhance the crop yield besides the health of the soil. The Trichoderma bio-organic fertilizer can also be used to promote the decomposition of organic matter and the abundance of beneficial bacteria to enrich the microbial community in the soil to ensure that more nutrients are released to crops with a better soil structure and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. Between field and horticultural and plantation crops, the two continued to improve germination, biomass, yield and quality parameters and to an impressive degree suppress soil-borne pathogens and nematodes by mycoparasitism, competition and antibiosis. Their mass production of Trichoderma-based bioformulations that can reduce the need to use chemical fertilizers and pesticides has also been made possible by recent developments of solid-state fermentation and bio-enriched substrates, thus forming a part of climate-smart and sustainable agriculture.