The over increasing population of the world has already touched the number of 6.8 billion. To feed this burgeoning population, farmers heavily rely on the use of chemical fertilizers especially inorganic nitrogen. Application of inorganic fertilizer has many repercussions, as it leads to ground and surface water contamination due to leaching and denitrification, which is detrimental for human and animal health. Secondly, manufacturing of industrial nitrogen fertilizer uses non-renewable resources like natural gas and coal and causes production of green house gases viz., CO2 and NO2 contributing to global warming (Bhattacharjee et al., 2008). Therefore, it’s high time to opt for alternative fertilizers which c