Boost Soil Fertility with Biofarming and Fungal Biodigestion to increase farm profitability

The concept of no-till farming is gaining traction globally for two main reasons: reducing organic matter exposure to air and creating a looser soil structure for better gas exchange. However, under these conditions, bacteria go into hyper drive, converting a lot of organic matter into CO2, which depletes the soil’s organic carbon reservoir.

The key to maintaining and increasing soil fertility with no-till biofarming is to build up stable organic matter (SOM), primarily humic substances. Enriching manure through fungal biodigestion is a crucial technology for achieving this.

Zytonic Godhan/Compost EZ: A Simple Solution

Zytonic Godhan/Compost EZ is a one-time application technology that involves drenching a 1:100 dilution of the product onto half-dried manure. A, 2 kg application per metric ton (MT) is recommended for complete fungal biodigestion, resulting in increased humus biomass (evident by a black color), free-flowing manure with an earthy smell, and a rich fungal consortium.

Restoring the Fungal Balance is Critical

Regenerating the fungal biomass is essential for improving the soil’s biomass generation capacity per square meter, ultimately making biofarming profitable. Decades of constant tillage of farmlands have significantly reduced the fungal population in our soils, hindering their contribution to enhanced root growth and a denser hyphae network. This network is crucial for plants to absorb nutrients and water efficiently from the rhizosphere (the zone surrounding plant roots).

Manure: A Valuable Resource

Manure from various animals like cows, buffaloes, goats, sheep, horses, poultry, and feedlots is a valuable source of nutrition for maintaining soil biology. However, traditionally, manure is mixed with leftover fodder, left to dry naturally, and ends up being lumpy, smelly, and only partially digested. This poor-quality farm yard manure is difficult to spread, forcing farmers to use large quantities (8-10 MT or 4-5 tractor trolleys) per acre, that too often only once every five years. This approach is akin to feeding yourself just once a week! Such practices hinder the soil biology from functioning at its peak efficiency for nutrient fixation from the air and soil.

Zytonic Godhan/Compost EZ: A Game Changer

Zydex’s innovation, Zytonic Godhan/Compost EZ, is a new, fungal-based biodigestion technology. This water-soluble product can be drenched on manure piles, covered, and left for complete biodigestion. The covered manure in a static mode will be completely biodigested in 30-45 days. The resultant outcome is a vermicompost-like manure, rich in humus, with an earthy smell. This biologically rich and free-flowing FYM (Farm Yard Manure) is much easier to spread and is 6-8 times higher effective.

Farmers are now using just 1 MT (half a tractor trolley) of the Zytonic Godhan digested farm yard manure (FYM) after mixing with Zytonic (mini kit). After spreading over an acre and rotovating, the farm fields tend to become remarkably soft and porous. This improved soil structure fosters a rich microbial community with efficient functioning of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, micro-arthropods, and earthworms etc. All these biology thrives in the presence of oxygen, water, and biodigested FYM.

By adopting Zytonic Godhan/Compost EZ and biofarming practices, farmers can achieve significant improvements up to 95% in germination, plant survival due to enhanced soil health, and fertility. Higher population of plant and growth leads to improved crop yields making it highly profitable.

Overcoming the NPK Challenge: Transitioning from Chemical to Biological Nutrition Management

One of the biggest hurdles in transitioning from chemical farming to biological farming is ensuring plants receive adequate amounts of NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium) and micronutrients. While chemical fertilizers provide readily available nutrients in water soluble form, they come with drawbacks for deterioration of soil health and long-term sustainability.

New generation of biofertilizers offers a path forward with the help of beneficial bacteria. Addressing soil physics, soil chemistry and soil biology simultaneously is the key for successful transition. Nitrogen-fixing bacteria like Azactobacter and Bacillus species play a crucial role. These bacteria capture atmospheric nitrogen and convert it into a usable form for plants, reducing reliance on synthetic nitrogen fertilizers like nitrates and ammonium. Additionally, they supply nitrogen in form of amino acids, which are the building blocks of peptides and proteins. These amino acids are highly energy efficient to produce peptides, proteins etc.

Phosphorus solubilizing bacteria and potassium mobilizing bacteria work alongside mycorrhizal fungi to unlock the mining of existing phosphorus and potassium in the soil. These beneficial microbes produce organic acids that help dissolve previously applied insoluble phosphorus and potassium fertilizers (like DAP and potash), and making them available for plant uptake.

Decades of chemical fertilizer use have resulted in a significant portion (75-80%) of applied fertilizers becoming trapped as insoluble minerals in the soil. This itself will last through centuries to come when bio-farming technique is adopted and improved soil fertility.

Zytonic Technology: Instant Revival of Soil Fertility

Zydex’s innovative Zytonic technology tackles soil compaction, a major challenge in modern agriculture. It helps transform hard and compact soil into a soft and porous soils. This improved soil environment fosters better gas exchange, water retention, and root development. Plant roots expand with a larger and denser hyphae network, thanks to the presence of beneficial fungi, enabling them to absorb more nutrients and water from the surrounding rhizosphere.

Enhancing Bio-Nutrient Availability

With a healthy population of nitrogen-fixing, phosphorus-solubilizing, and potassium-mobilizing bacteria working efficiently, the bio-availability of NPK and micronutrients in the soil is significantly increased. This reduces dependence on external chemical fertilizers.

For an extra yield boost during the flowering and fruiting stages, farmers can utilize targeted solutions like Zytonic Zinc Solubilizing Bacteria and Zytonic Potassium Mobilizing Bacteria to address specific nutrient needs.

Zytonic Technology: A Bridge to Profitable Biofarming

By adopting biofertilizers and leveraging Zytonic technology for plant protection & to reduce heat stress, farmers can make a smooth and profitable transition from chemical to biological farming in a single crop cycle. This approach not only improves soil health and fertility but also ensures plants receive the essential nutrients they need for optimal growth and yield with good nutrition & safety for the consumers.

Zytonic Technology: A Sustainable Farming Solution for Agriculture with Reduced Water Consumption

The agricultural sector faces a major challenge – excessive water use. Traditional irrigation practices waste a significant amount of water, with only 3-4% utilized by the plants. The rest evaporates, highlighting the need for improved water retention in the root zone (rhizosphere) at lower moisture levels.
The Zytonic technology offers a ground-breaking solution that promotes sustainable farming by reducing water consumption and enhancing soil health.

Zytonic’s Solution: makes soils soft and porous immediately helping root growth and development of mycorrhizal hyphae network

Zytonic is a revolutionary biofertilizer technology that utilizes a unique polymer-embedded platform. This platform creates billions of microscopic spaces between soil particles, increasing and maintaining porosity at the micro level. These spacers improve water retention within the soil, reducing evaporation and keeping water readily available for plant roots and microbes.

Improved Water Uptake and Stress Tolerance with Porous Soils

The increased porosity created by Zytonic promotes the growth of white roots and finer roots, leading to a denser mycorrhizal hyphae network. This translates to a significant improvement in the plant’s water and nutrient uptake capability. With a healthier root system, plants can thrive even in lower moisture soils, promoting sustainable farming with less water.

Zytonic Suraksha: A Solution for Reducing Abiotic Stress and Boosting Photosynthesis

Abiotic stress, particularly on a hot sunny day, is a major concern for farmers. Zytonic Suraksha, a foliar biofertilizer from Zydex, directly addresses this challenge. It creates a water-absorbing, bio-degradable polymer layer on leaves. This layer absorbs dew condensation in the night hours, providing water rich in dissolved carbon dioxide directly in the leaf structure.
This innovative solution also reduces water evaporation during the day and enhances photosynthesis activity. The key benefit of spraying Zytonic Suraksha is to use nature’s mechanism to provide the key growth ingredients, water, and carbon dioxide from the air.

Improved Percolation and Restoring Water Table

Zytonic technology allows plants to thrive with less number of water cycles. This is a step towards sustainable farming.
Reduced irrigation frequency and improved water retention in the porous soil structure lead to a significant reduction in water usage.
The porous soil structure created by Zytonic allows for rainwater to percolate and move downwards in the soil profile. With the adoption of Zytonic Technology in farming practices, the farmers will maintain improved infiltration capacity and percolation of rainwater in the entire year. He will also end up using less water with a net result of improving his water table year on year basis. This helps the farms to have efficient groundwater recharge to achieve sustainable farming.
The Zydex approach is to provide the biofertilizer range for soils and foliar application and harvest more water from rains, from night dew condensation and manage the plant with low moisture condition in the soil and extending the time for irrigation cycles.

Zytonic Technology: A Revolution for Sustainable Agriculture

Zytonic technology offers a comprehensive solution for water management in agriculture. It addresses water inefficiency at its core, combats abiotic stress, promotes sustainable water usage practices, and improves soil health – all crucial factors for sustainable farming. This innovative technology has the potential to revolutionize agriculture and repair the damage caused by decades of unsustainable water use. By adopting Zytonic technology, farmers can contribute to a more sustainable future for agriculture.

Faster Restoration of Soil Health with Zytonic Technology

Zytonic Platform: A Global First & Need of the World

Every farmer desires high yields, but what if you could achieve this with sustainable farming practices? For decades, farmers relied on chemical fertilizers and pesticides to boost yields. However, this approach has resulted in the loss of soil health. Excessive chemical use has devastated soil health by killing the microbial population. Another concern for sustainable farming is the loss of organic matter which is critical for nutrient uptake by the plants and water storage capacity of the soils.

Modern agricultural practices like mechanical rototilling further aggravated the problem. This disturbance exposed organic matter to rapid oxidation, depleting and affecting the soil health. The consequences? Non-sustainable farms. The hard and compacted soil leads to stunted root growth, reduced water retention, and less percolation. The farmers are now increasing power to till the land that once was soft and porous and burning more fuel.

This breakdown in soil structure had a domino effect. Limited root development and dysfunctional mycorrhizal fungi (beneficial organisms) led to reduced biomass generation per acre due to declining soil health parameters. To address this, the farmers turned to higher and higher fertigation (applying fertilizers with irrigation) needing more and more water resulting in excess nitrates and ammonia in the plants, attracting more and more pests and diseases.

Furthermore, compacted soil means stagnant water on the surface, leading to runoff and washing away nutrients and resources.

The answer lies in improving the percolation capacity of the soils. The Zytonic biofertilizer usage makes the soil soft and porous, improving rainwater percolation, and reversing the runoffs and loss of nutrients.
This technology, combined with beneficial bacteria and other biological support methods, can soften and loosen compacted soil within two watering cycles, with lasting effects for up to 60 days. By following protocol, one can maintain softness and porosity throughout the year.

Healthy, porous soil promotes root growth, gas exchange, and water retention leading to an increase in microbial population and its activity, a key indicator of soil health. This allows plants to absorb nutrients more efficiently, while the denser root zone feeds the thriving microbial population. These microbes act as miners, extracting nutrients from the soil and feeding the plant, ultimately leading to improved food quality and taste & yields. This is how one will achieve sustainable farming.

The key to future sustainable farming practices lies in enhancing soil organic matter and improving soil health. A healthy soil ecosystem, with its extensive network of roots and microbial activity. Technologies like Zytonic promote this balance, fostering natural and organic farming practices to be achieved in one crop cycle with higher profits immediately.

By increasing organic matter, we can gradually build soil carbon content. This shift from depleted soils with less than 1% organic matter to a healthy 5-6% range is crucial for maintaining soil structure, higher humus content, and efficient moisture retention – all essential for soil health and sustainable farming.

The transition from chemical- and machine-dependent farming to a more sustainable approach is now achievable. Technologies like Zytonic, along with beneficial bio-inputs offer a profitable path for farmers during the transition to sustainable farming by increasing bio-nutrient availability and enhancing bio protection by addressing soil health and reducing and ultimately eliminating the need of chemical nutrients.

With the world turning towards organic and sustainable ways of farming, bio-farming or organic farming has gained acceptance and popularity. Bio-farming is nothing but using organic and eco-friendly ways for farming especially organic fertilizers such as compost and green manure, cow dung manure, vermicompost, etc. Zydex introduces a revolutionary solution ‘Prakalp Sanjivani’ to adopt bio-farming by making it profitable.

Why Bio-farming?

Organic farming through biofertilizers is a foolproof solution to combat the issues arising due to chemical farming. Some of the common ones being loss of fertility in the soil, hardness of soil, poor crop quality and excess water consumption. Bio-farming makes the soil rich and prepares it for good quality crops. Moreover, it is environment friendly, cost-effective, and profitable. It produces harvest with higher nutritional value and no hazards of chemical toxicity.

How does Zydex contribute to bio-farming?

Zydex’s Zytonic Godhan is a part of ‘Prakalp Sanjivani’ protocol. It ensures complete transformation of animal dung and other wastes into humus rich manure. It makes the manure, odour free and effective in just 45-60 days. It is simple to prepare and does not require much manual work. After the manure is ready, it can be easily spread in the fields and the results are path breaking – rich and organic chemical free crops, fruits and vegetables.

Results in India

In India, numerous farmers have completely switched to organic farming through Zytonic Godhan and are yielding visible results. This is one of Zydex’s many baby steps to make India organic. If you are a farmer, manure distributor or supplier, join in this mammoth task of promoting bio farming in your own circles. Connect today.