Effect of different Land-use Systems on Microbial Population and Urease Enzyme activity in a Mollisol

Author: Basta Ram*, Ajeet Pratap Singh, Vijay Kant Singh, Shubham Anil Durgude and Anil Nath

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Abstract

The soil microbial properties and urease activity significantly influenced by different different treatments. Different land uses effect micrbial and urease enzyme activity, the present study was conducted at Norman E. Borlaug Crop Research Centre, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar. The different treatment selected for study were T1 (rice–potato–okra), T2 (rice–pea (vegetable)–maize), T3 (sorghum multi-cut (fodder)–yellow sarson–black gram), T4 (rice-wheat–green gram), T5 (rice–berseem + oat + mustard (fodder)–maize + cowpea (fodder)), T6 (guava + lemon), S7 (poplar + turmeric), T8 (eucalyptus + turmeric), T9 (fallow). The highest value of soil bacteria (4.29 × 108 cfu g-1 soil), fungi (3.99 × 105 cfu g-1 soil), actinomycetes (3.46 × 106 cfu g-1 soil), total microbial count (4.78 × 108 cfu g-1 soil). More over, urease enzyme activity (9.23mg urea g1 soil 24h-1) observed under the T8 treatment, which was significantly differ from T9. Va

Keywords

Land-use Systems, Microbial count, urease enzyme activity.

Conclusion

The bacterial, fungal, actinomycetes, total microbial population and urease activity differed significantly under different treatments. The highest bacterial population, fungal population, actinomycetes, total microbial population and urease activity was reported under T8 (eucalyptus + turmeric) land-use system while the lowest were obtained under T9 (fallow uncultivated) treatment.The basis on of these result, concluded that among different treatment better microbial population and urease activity of soil were found under agro and forestry based treatment (T8 and T7 treatments). So, soil researchers should have been promoted the agroforestry land-use system in combination with agricultural systems.

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Basta Ram, Ajeet Pratap Singh, Vijay Kant Singh, Shubham Anil Durgude and Anil Nath (2022). Effect of different Land-use Systems on Microbial Population and Urease Enzyme Activity in a Mollisol. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 14(1): 455-4