Exploring growth enhancing rhizospheric microorganisms for silviculture of Eucalyptus pellita

The purpose of this research was to identify local microbes from Sarawak soil capable of promoting plant growth to reduce the use of chemical fertilizer by introducing biofertilizer to the silviculture of Eucaplyptus pellita. The costly chemical fertilizer brings harms to the environment if used extensively for long period. In order to reduce the use of chemical fertilizer, biofertilizer that contains the beneficial natural microbes associated to the plants were isolated and incorporated into the formula of the fertilizer. The results from this research has shown that the local microbes found could potentially reduce the use of chemical fertilizer as they yield similar results with lower usage of chemical fertilizer.