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Discuss the types of manure.
Vhat is pasturage and how is it related to honey production?
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There are four main classes of manures used in soil management:
Animal manure
Human manure
Compost
Green manure
Pasturage is the vegetation or plant that are present in the area where animal grazing is practised.
The flowers are the deciding factor for the quality and quantity of the honey produced by them.
The honeybee will collect the nectar with the help of their tube-like a tongue.
Then it will stay in honey where it is missed with the enzymes and proteins of bees to convert into honey
Answer:
Classification of Manures and fertilizers
Variety of manures and fertilizers available in the market are classified into two broad groups:
a) Natural or organic manures
b) Artificial or chemical fertilizers.
Natural Organic Manures
1) Farm Yard Manure:
It is a mixture of cattle dung, urine, litter or bedding material, portion of fodder not consumed by cattle and domestic wastes like ashes etc. collected and dumped into a pit or a heap in the corner of the backyard. It is allowed to remain there and rot till it is taken out and applied to fields. Well rotten Farm Yard Manure contains O.5.% N., 0.2 % P2 O5 and 0.5 % K2 O.
2) Compost:
Well rotted plant and animal residue is called compost. Composting means rotting of plant and animal remains before applying in fields. The essential requirements of composting are air, moisture, optimum temperature and a small quantity of nitrogen. It is an activity of micro-organisms and same people recommend addition of suitably prepared inoculums to introduce micro-organisms for decomposing the material.
3) Green Manuring:
Green manure crops are grown in the field itself either as a pure crop, or as an intercrop with the main crop, and buried in the same field. The most common green manure crops are sannhemp, dhaincha and guar.