during Rabi 2012-13. The experiment comprised of 11 treatments replicated three times in a Randomized Block Design. Of the eleven treatments seven comprised of 100 per cent NPK with or without organic nutrient supplements, two treatments with 50 per cent NPK +organic nutrient supplements, one treatment with no nutrients (T 1-control), and one treatment with only biofertilizers. The T 7 which comprised of 100 per cent NPK (@150-38-63 kg NPK ha-1) application along with vermicompost (@ 2.5 t ha-1), biofertilizer @2 kg ha-1 each of Azotobacter, Azospirillum and PSB) recorded significantly higher values for total dry weight per plant (77.8 g), yield (420.0 q ha-1), chlorophyll content (56.96%) TSS (3.1 0 Brix), ascorbic acid content(55.2 mg/ 100g) and protein content (44.2 g/100g) followed by T 6. The treatment T 6 had same nutrients as T 7 except, FYM instead of vermicompost. But the T 6 proved to be most economical treatment with a benefit:cost ratio of 2.7.
In the current era of deforestation, well supported by gradual extinction of medicinally and economically important flora, traditional knowledge holds a valuable option in order to keep a balancing role towards biodiversity conservation leading to sustainability, hence needs to be focused and disseminated generation wise. Every crop has its own benefits to serve mankind. Green leafy vegetables are important group of nutrient dense commodity regarded as natures' anti-aging wonders, inexpensive food resource and a future herbal medicine owing to its concentrated and overloaded source of nutrients and phytochemicals. Unfortunately, some of them are still confined to local habitat and not explore commercially, accompanied by rare consumption. As leafy vegetables serve an important and diverse component in regular diet of rural and tribal communities satisfying nutritional need and contribute to livelihood as a food and medicine, hence can be considered as a potential tool to obtain sustainable agriculture, safeguarding the nature thus can incorporated with other commercial crops leading to minimizing the scarcity of traditional food availability and danger of extinction. The current paper enlists the baseline information about medicinal properties, Nutritional quality and health benefits of some noncultivated leafy vegetables from various regions of Odisha. Leafy vegetables, the commodity of nutritional significance is important horticultural produce and form integral part of the rural and tribal household.
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