Evaluation of Indigenous Organic Foliar Nutrition Panchagavya in Maize Based Cropping System

Abstract

Field experiments were conducted to evaluate the organic sources of nutrients and Panchagavya spray on the biochemical changes and yield of maize-sunflower-green gram cropping system. The experiment consisted of nine treatments comprising six treatments of organic sources of nutrients with and without Panchagavya (blend of five products obtained from cow) foliar spray; two treatments were recommended dose of fertilizers (RDF) with and without recommended foliar spray (RFS) and one control (neither manured nor fertilizer applied). The study revealed that increased soluble protein content and NRase activity of maize, sunflower and green gram with BGS and it was comparable to RDF, RFS, RDF and biogas slurry (BGS) treatments. Higher yield of maize and sunflower were recorded under BGS with Panchagavya. Grain yield of green gram was higher under recommended fertilizer treatments but it was comparable to BGS with Panchagavya-. Among all the organic sources tried, BGS+Panchagavya spray proved to be a better source than others.