{"id":125260,"date":"2021-08-11T18:19:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T12:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=125260"},"modified":"2021-08-12T11:49:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T06:19:25","slug":"steps-taken-by-the-government-for-awareness-about-the-pusa-decomposer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/steps-taken-by-the-government-for-awareness-about-the-pusa-decomposer\/","title":{"rendered":"Steps taken by the Government for awareness about the Pusa Decomposer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1744517\"><b>PIB<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Government of India has taken several steps to spread awareness about the Pusa Decomposer.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About Pusa Decomposer:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Pusa Decomposer <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a low-cost capsule that can <strong>convert paddy stubble into bio-manure<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>The capsule <\/b><b>consists<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of a <strong>fungi-based liquid solution<\/strong> that can soften hard stubble to the extent that it can be easily mixed with soil in the field to act as compost.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Developed by:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pusa Decomposer Technology has been developed by ICAR &#8211; Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>Benefits:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>This method rules out<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the need to burn the stubble. It also helps in retaining the essential microbes and nutrients in the soil that is otherwise damaged when the residue is burned.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Concerns:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>The window of time <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">required for the Pusa Decomposer solution to work is around 20 to 25 days. Farmers argue that this window is too long for them.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: PIB What is the News? The Government of India has taken several steps to spread awareness about the Pusa Decomposer. About Pusa Decomposer: Pusa Decomposer is a low-cost capsule that can convert paddy stubble into bio-manure. The capsule consists of a fungi-based liquid solution that can soften hard stubble to the extent that it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/steps-taken-by-the-government-for-awareness-about-the-pusa-decomposer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Steps taken by the Government for awareness about the Pusa Decomposer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9],"tags":[8983,8918,4229],"class_list":["post-125260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-bio-manure","tag-e-technology-in-aid-of-farmer","tag-stubble-burning","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700467717},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}