ABSTRACT
This chapter evaluates the biochemical and food quality of cowpea grown under fertilizer treatment of seaweed and water hyacinth combination. It also evaluates different combinations of seaweed and Hyacinth as a biofertilizer for cultivation of cowpea. The chapter describes remarkable changes in shoot length, number of leaves and fruit pod, and root length. It suggests further experiments to formulate various combinations of seaweed and Hyacinth to improve cowpea quality and quantity in different crop fields of India. The chapter discusses different sets of fertilizers like Hyacinth, Sargassum, Galaxura, and mixture of all these in different sets with autoclave or without autoclaving, and total 15 groups were formed including control without any treatment of fertilizer. Different combinations of seaweed and Hyacinth biofertilizers were made. Hyacinth, Sargassum, and Galaxura solid fertilizers were applied in different combinations. The results can further be evaluated for the properties of cowpea crop under the combinations on pilot scale field trials in different parts of India.
