EXTRACTION OF HUMIC SUBSTANCES FROM PAKISTANI PRETREATED LIGNITE AND THEIR APPLICATIONS AS NUTRIENTS, ZN/MG FERRITE NANOCOMPOSITE AND PGPB FORTIFIED HUMIC SUBSTANCES ON WHEAT (TRITICUM AESTIVUM L.) AND RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L.) CROPS

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Tanzila Aslam
Zill-i- Huma Nazli
Farhat Jubeen
Faiza Nazir

Keywords

Humic substances, Humic acid, Fulvic acid, Zn/ Mg Ferrite nano-composite, Micro and Macronutrients, PGPB, Rice crop, Wheat crop, Vitamins, HPLC, Aflatoxins

Abstract

Traditional agriculture is the largest sector in the world that produces food.
Yet, these agroecosystems are often and closely associated with rural poverty, reflecting the periphery countries' dual emphasis on subsistence farming and commodity production.
Consequently, increasing the yield of subsistence crops with socially adapted technology may be a reliable and advantageous strategy. The application of fertilizer treatments was applied in two ways half applied by flood and other half through foliar spray on rice and wheat crops in field experiment. Results were shown positive response to all the treatments because pure humic substances were used as control and saw their effect on crops alternatively micro and macronutrients fortified HS, Zn/Mg Ferrite fortified HS, PGPB fortified HS and mixture of PGPB, Nutrients, and Zn/Mg Ferrite fortified HS. Out of all treatments, the treatment no.5 was shown the best positive response on both rice and wheat crops such as it was proved more effective for greater yield, greater protein and fat contents, greater nutrients amount and showed greater content of multivitamins in samples rather than other treatments and the trend was drawn for treatment as follows; T5 (Macro + Micro Nut + PGPB + ZnMg Ferrite + HS) > T4 (PGPB + HS)  T3 (ZnMg Ferrite + HS)    >  T2 (Macro + Micro Nut + HS)  > T1 (HS = Control). The instrumental characterization  was performed such as, FTIF for functional groups detection, HPLC for multivitamins and bioactive compounds diction, Flame Photometer and Atomic absorptions spectrophotometer for minerals detection, and grain analyser for moisture content, protein, fat detection and Aflatest Fluorometer for aflatoxin detection in samples in which the  rice sample showed 5.6 ppb quantity of aflatoxins that range fall within acceptable range as below from 20 ppb and wheat sample showed 7.9 ppb quantity of aflatoxins that range fall within acceptable range as below from 20 ppb. All results were analyzed statistically using software statistix 8.1.

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