Panchamrit is a mixture of five food products — honey, milk, yogurt, ghee, and sugar (garnished with basil leaves), often used in Hindu rituals
If you want the crops in your kitchen garden give a better yield, try using Panchamrit instead of a fertiliser. After months of study, researchers at Gujarat University found that 'Panchamrit' is a viable alternative to chemical and organic fertilisers.
In a study titled 'Comparative effect of chemical, organic fertilizer and Panchamrit (bio-fertilizer) on growth and yield of Fenugreek', a team of three professors of the Department of Botany — Heppy Patel, Jahanvi Pandya, and Nainesh Modi — speaks about how Panchamrit boosts plant growth.
Panchamrit is a mixture of five food products — honey, milk, yogurt, ghee, and sugar (garnished with basil leaves), often used in Hindu rituals.
The researchers conducted a field trial at the botanical garden of GU to assess the comparative effect of chemical and organic fertilisers and Panchamrit (a bio fertiliser).
Speaking about the research, professor Modi said, "In Ayurveda, Panchamrit is said to cure many diseases. High input practices, such as heavy use of chemical fertilisers, have given rise to many economical, environmental, and social problems. This coupled with increasing cost of chemical inputs has left farmers helpless, resulting to deterioration in seed quality of certain crops and a subsequent fall in sales price. Peasants are becoming increasingly dependent on off-farm supplies, which require cash and may not always be available on time. These were the reasons we took up this study."
As part of the study, fenugreek was planted in pots and watered and maintained regularly over 66 days. The seeds were sown in 12 pots in the winters of 2017 and were treated with fertilisers every 10 days. The data of growth and yield was collated meticulously.
Overall bacterial analysis indicated high prevalence of rhizobium bacteria (good for soil health) in Panchamrit treated soil and lowest in the control. The study concluded that growth parameter was higher in the former.
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