{"id":26586,"date":"2024-09-15T06:21:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T00:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26586"},"modified":"2025-04-08T03:14:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:44:46","slug":"bio-decomposer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bio-decomposer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio-decomposer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Bio-decomposer:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>microbial liquid spray<\/strong> which, when sprayed onto paddy stubble, breaks it down in a way that can be easily absorbed into the soil, whereby farmers then have no need to burn the stubble.<\/li>\n<li>It has been developed by the<strong> Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The government has been spraying the bio-decomposer solution free of cost since 2020 over farmlands in outer Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>It has been used by the States of <strong>Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and NCT of Delhi<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advantages:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>By spraying bio-decomposer, farmers won\u2019t need to burn their paddy stubble, which will not only help in reducing pollution but also increase soil fertility.<\/li>\n<li>Its use enriches the <strong>soil with organic carbon<\/strong> (OC), nutrients and soil biological and physical properties.<\/li>\n<li>It is an efficient and effective, cheaper, doable, and practical technique to stop stubble burning. It is an eco-friendly and environmentally useful technology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are Microbes?<\/h3>\n<p>These are tiny living things that are found all around us. Also known as microorganisms, they are too small to be seen by the naked eye.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Delhi\/bio-decomposer-to-be-sprayed-over-farms-to-prevent-bad-air\/article68631422.ece#:\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Bio-decomposer to be sprayed over farms to prevent bad air<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bio-decomposer is a microbial liquid spray which, when sprayed onto paddy stubble, breaks it down in a way that can be easily absorbed into the soil, whereby farmers then have no need to burn the stubble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}