Effect of Homa organic farming on growth, yield and quality parameters of Okra

Kumar, Rajeev; Kumar, Adyant; Chakraborty, Soumyabrata; Basarkar, P. W.

doi:10.31018/jans.v9i4.1511

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“…Other qualitative attributes were also greatly influenced by the Vedic and Agnihotra Farming over the absolute control and findings revealed significant effect of Agnihotra farming over TSS (ºBrix), reducing sugar (%), total sugar (%) and ascorbic acid (mg 100 g -1 ) than respective other counterparts (Table 2). Such findings especially in the case of homa induction (Agnihotra Farming) clearly supported the capability of homa farming on enhancing rhizosphere and biosphere simultaneously (Pathak and Ram, 2010) and higher level of ascorbic acid in homa induced growing conditions as recorded in the present investigation corroborated well with the previous findings of Kumar et al (2017).…”

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“…However, more yield (72.37 t ha -1 ) recorded under E 2 C 1 [Enriched Sanjeevani (1%) + Homa Induction (Agnihotra)] followed by only 30.29 t ha -1 in E 2 C 2 [Only Homa Induction (Agnihotra)] growing condition (Table 1). This type of findings may probably be due to the synergistic impact of the integration of organic farming and Homa farming as Homa Jaivik Krishi (Pathak, 2009) and the higher level of yield as recorded here close conformity with the earlier observation of Kumar et al (2017) where they observed better growth and yield in okra grown through Homa Organic treatments. Besides, in homa farming condition the chlorophyll of the plants are increased, and those are the main cause of the faster growth and yield maximization (Berk and Jhonson, 2009).…”

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confidence: 89%

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EFFECT OF ENRICHED SANJEEVANI AND AGNIHOTRA ON GROWTH, YIELD AND QUALITY OF BRINJAL (Solanum melongena L.)

Tripathy

Dutta

2019

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Brinjal is a crop grown widely all over India and preferred by both rich and poor. The Chhotanagpur plateau of Jharkhand is famous for quality vegetable production and brinjal is very commonly grown in this region almost throughout the year. However, the most of the commercial growers using plant protection chemicals and synthetic fertilizers those are so expensive that poor farmers can’t afford. The extensive uses of agro-chemicals and synthetic fertilizers also reduce the quality of both the produce and the cultivated soil. In this context, an attempt has been made through the present investigation by growing different varieties of brinjal by adopting Vedic (Enriched Sanjeevani) Farming and Homa Induction (Agnihotra) techniques with their respective four non-chemical alternative growing approaches, viz. E1C1: Enriched Sanjeevani (1%), E1C2: Absolute Control (inherent fertility status of the experimental plot); E2C1: Enriched Sanjeevani (1%) + Homa Induction (Agnihotra), and E2C2: Only Homa Induction (Agnihotra). Five varieties of the crop, viz. V1: Swarna Pratibha; V2: Swarna Neelima; V3: Swarna Shakti; V4: Mukta Jhuri; V5: Long Green were grown with their four replications under four growing conditions and the Randomized Completed Block Design was adopted for field trials. Different growth, yield and quality attributing characters of the crop were taken into account and findings revealed that E2C1: Enriched Sanjeevani (1%) + Homa Induction (Agnihotra) was the most suitable growing condition for V2 (Swarna Neelima) with the maximum yield (72.37 t ha-1). Different growth and yield attributes of the crop varieties (especially in the case of V2: Swarna Neelima) were highly influenced by Enriched Sanjeevani (1%) + Homa Induction (Agnihotra) [E2C1] growing condition resulting higher benefit cost ratio of 6.78. Quality contributing attributes were also highly influenced by homa induction (Agnihotra), as a consequence, higher level of dry matter, TSS, and ascorbic acid contents were estimated from almost all samples collected from E2C1: Enriched Sanjeevani (1%) + Homa Induction (Agnihotra), and E2C2: Only Homa Induction (Agnihotra) growing conditions.

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confidence: 89%

EFFECT OF ENRICHED SANJEEVANI AND AGNIHOTRA ON GROWTH, YIELD AND QUALITY OF BRINJAL (Solanum melongena L.)

Tripathy

Dutta

2019

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“…Soil has been polluted by various toxic compounds and homa therapy has the power to rejuvenate the soil by maintaining a healthy micro flora and fuauna [18] . Studies have also demonstrated that homa organic treatments enhanced crop productivity and quality [19][20] . Application of homa treatment, smoke and ash makes the soil rich in terms of soil micro flora and macro and micronutrient i.e.…”

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Effect of Indian traditional homa (Agnihotra) in the management of Alternaria solani of potato crop and Alternaria solani and Xanthomonas compestris pv. vesicatoria of tomato under controlled environmental conditions in polyhouse

Kadam¹,

Raghuwanshi²,

Borkar³

et al. 2020

Int. J. Chem. Stud.

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Crop cultivation in controlled environment is significantly increasing all over the world due to erratic climatic conditions and climate change. Under controlled environment, the plant pathogens particularly from seed borne infections, develop very quickly infecting the crop and causes substantial losses. Control of these pathogens and diseases with pesticide application in controlled environment has its own limitations due to persistance of pesticidal residues over a long period owing to its non depletion in the controlled environment. Traditional homa treatment as non-chemical treatment was used to manage the fungal pathogen Alternaria solani in tomato and potato crop and bacterial pathogen Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria in tomato crop under controlled polyhouse condition. It was observed that homa therapy effectively reduced the incidence of early blight disease of potato and tomato and bacterial blight disease of tomato in polyhouse and it also reduced the environmental pathogenic microflora around 70 per cent. Thus homa therapy can be used as an alternate solution for chemical pesticides in protected cultivation and also be used in integrated pest management.

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Effect of agnihotra and tryambakam homa ash on growth of tomato plants: A novel approach for organic farming

Chhabra¹,

Rajamani²,

Sharma³

et al. 2019

AJBS

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The present experiment is a pilot study designed to know the effect of Agnihotra and Tryambakam homa ash on tomato plant (Solenum lycopersicum L.) grown under pot conditions. Agnihotra and Tryambakam homa were performed with chanting of sanskrit mantras. Agnihotra was performed during sunrise and sunset and tryambakam homa was at any time of day and ashes were collected separately from both the homas. These ashes were mixed with coco peat, red soil and cow dung separately and this mixture was filled in pots. Ten days old seedlings of tomato plant were transplanted into the soil mixture and nitrogen, phosphate and potassium (NPK), jeevamruth and consortium were added. After 80 days, the plant growth parameters viz., shoot length, root length, total length, number of leaves, fresh root weight, fresh shoot weight, total weight, dry shoot weight, dry root weight and total dry weight were studied. Most of the parameters showed statistically significant (P>0.05) results however, shoot weight, total fresh weight and dry weights had no significant values. This pilot study suggests that agnihotra and tryambakam homa ash may be a good strategy of organic farming for sustainable agriculture.

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Effect of Homa organic farming on growth, yield and quality parameters of Okra

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EFFECT OF ENRICHED SANJEEVANI AND AGNIHOTRA ON GROWTH, YIELD AND QUALITY OF BRINJAL (Solanum melongena L.)

EFFECT OF ENRICHED SANJEEVANI AND AGNIHOTRA ON GROWTH, YIELD AND QUALITY OF BRINJAL (Solanum melongena L.)

Effect of Indian traditional homa (Agnihotra) in the management of <em>Alternaria solani </em>of potato crop and <em>Alternaria solani</em> and <em>Xanthomonas compestris</em> pv. <em>vesicatoria</em> of tomato under controlled environmental conditions in polyhouse

Effect of agnihotra and tryambakam homa ash on growth of tomato plants: A novel approach for organic farming

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