MS 185-1:2016 Microbial bio-fertilizers – Part 1: Specifications for nitrogen fixing bacteria

Scope:
This Mauritian Standard specifies the requirements and methods of test for three types of nitrogen fixing microbial bio-fertilizers:

(i) Rhizobium sp

(ii) Azotobacter sp

(iii) Azospirillum spp

This Mauritian standard is applicable to both solid as well as liquid nitrogen fixing microbial biofertilizers.

This part of MS 185 is not applicable to other types of bio-fertilizers such as algae, ferns, fungi and others.

The requirements specified in this standard are limited to laboratory performance and it does not cover field efficacy test.