Liquid Bioformulation: A Trending Approach Towards Achieving Sustainable Agriculture

The human population is expanding at an exponential rate, and has created a great surge in the demand for food production. To intensify the rate of crop production, there is a tremendous usage of chemical pesticides and fertilizers. The practice of using these chemicals to enhance crop productivity has resulted in the degradation of soil fertility, leading to the depletion of native soil microflora. The constant application of these hazardous chemicals in the soil possesses major threat to humans and animals thereby impacting the agroecosystem severely. Hence, it is very important to hunt for certain new alternatives for enhancing crop productivity in an eco-friendly manner by using the microbial bioformulations. Microbial bioformulations can be mainly divided into two types: solid and liquid. There is a lot of information available on the subject of solid bioformulation, but the concept of liquid bioformulation is largely ignored. This article focuses on the diverse spectrum of liquid bioformulation pertaining to the market capture, its different types, potency of the product, mode of usage, and the limitations encountered. Also the authors have tried to include all the strategies required for sensitizing and making liquid bioformulation approach cost effective and as a greener strategy to succeed in developing countries.