- Environmental improvement
- Soil enhancer, soil recovery system
- Sustainable alternative to chemical fertilizer
- Reduce build-up of salt in soil
- Water usage
- Reduce water usage per ha due to increase in retention of water in soil as a result of it C/N ration helping the uptake of N in crops improving the “bonding” cartelistic of soil particles.
- Re-establish and enhance microbial activities in the soil. This is due to higher percentage of available nitrogen which accelerates the N-uptake by plants. This is particularly visible in the early part of the growth cycle.
- Crop production
- Has higher ammonium fraction that is more easily accessible by the crops.
- Accelerates the N mineralization process due to its good C/N ratio. This, in turn, helps the uptake of N in the crops, improving the “bonding” cartelistic of the material with soil particles and therefore reduce leach possibility of the product out of the soil (Ghoneim 2008).
- Natural pesticides, fungicides toxic inhibitors
- Is a natural pesticide and is a good alternative to synthetic pesticides when combating nematode manifestations
- Alternative to conventional fungicides
- Reduce or inhibit toxic substances in soils typically for the herbicide atrazine and the insecticide chlorpyrifos.
- Energy
- Bs is energy positive and use 300 time less energy to produce than Synthetic Fertilizer.
- This can have a very large impact on a macroeconomic scale and significantly reduce GHG, especially in the food-production value chain.
- Can save fossil fuel energy and related costs.
- Increasing fossil fuel prices will make fossil fuel based fertilizers’ price more and more expensive and volatile, which will directly impact those smallholder farmers that currently depend on them.
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