Screening and Characterization of Soil Bacteria which Improves Crop Yield

Municipal solid waste has 500 tons of waste per day with a composition of 60% of domestic waste and 40% of commercial waste. The composition of domestic waste were organic waste, green waste, mixed paper, plastic, textile, ferrous, glass, rubber and leather, and others. The degradation of organic wastes by the bacterial consortia is highly significant. This results in loss of potentially valuable materials that can be processed as fertilizer, fuel and fodder. The main aim of this project was to develop some successful bacterial consortium that can concomitantly degrade different components of the organic municipal solid wastes with the help of their enzymes in less span of time under natural conditions without producing any foul odor. In addition to that, the other important aim was to characterize the bacteria and their roles in plant growth promotion activity were observed in pot experiments.