Biostimulants in Agriculture: Guide for Indian Crops Indian farming is becoming more demanding. Crops must perform under changing rainfall, rising temperatures, soil constraints and increasing pressure to use agricultural inputs more efficiently. This has brought greater attention to biostimulants in agriculture. But biostimulants are also widely misunderstood. They are sometimes treated as fertilisers, sometimes confused with biofertilisers, and occasionally promoted as prod

The reality of present-day agriculture is still undecided as to which way to go. One way is to completely depend on synthetic fertilizers and chemicals, which would mean the risks of soil degradation, environmental damage, and a decline in yield over the long term. The other way is a more balanced manner: making use of nature’s partners to restore soil, increase plant strength, and do crop production in a sustainable way. Biostimulants in agricultural practice and biofertiliz