<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><article><front><Journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type='publisher'>CWE/1758/2020</journal-id><journal-title >Current World Environment</journal-title><issn pub-type='PPub'>0973-4929</issn><issn pub-type='ePub'>2320-8031</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Enviro Research Publishers</publisher-name></publisher></Journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type='other'>CWE--74-00</article-id><title-group><article-title>Chemical and Microbiological Analysis of Organic Manure of Nisargruna Biogas Plant and its Applications as Carrier Materials for Biofertilizers</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id='aff002'><sup>2</sup><instname>Bhabha Atomic Research Center</instname>,<deptname>Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division</deptname>, <instcity>Mumbai</instcity>, <instcountry>India</instcountry>.</aff><pub-date pub-type='ppub'><publicationDate></publicationDate></pub-date><doi>10.12944/CWE.15.3.17</doi><volume>Volume 15</volume><issue>Volume 15</issue><page>535-543</page><abstract><title>Abstract</title><p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:14px&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Theuse of&lt;em&gt;Nisargruna&lt;/em&gt; biogas plant is an efficient approach to recycle the biodegradable wastematerials into&amp;nbsp; valuable products like organic manure, methane carbon dioxide and water. In the current study, the manureobtained from five different &lt;em&gt;Nisargruna &lt;/em&gt;biogas plants was analyzed for its characteristic properties. These properties included their chemical composition (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulphur and macro/micro-nutrients), water holding capacity and heavy metal concentration and coliform bacteria and fungi. The results indicated the presence of a high concentration of macro- and micronutrients, and the absence of coliforms. The samples with good nutrient contents were used as a carrier material for&lt;em&gt;Azotobacter&lt;/em&gt;sp.,&lt;em&gt; Rhizobium&lt;/em&gt;sp. and phosphate solubilizing &lt;em&gt;Bacillus&lt;/em&gt;sp. On analysis, themanurewas found to be useful as carrier for selected cultures even after six months of production, hence confirming its stability and practical application.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><title>Keywords</title><kwd>Biofertilizer</kwd><kwd> Biogas Plant</kwd><kwd> Carrier Materials</kwd><kwd> Nisargruna</kwd><kwd> Organic Manure</kwd></kwd-group><counts><ref-count count='' /><page-count count='' /></counts></article-meta></front></article>