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M Sharath Chandra, RK Naresh, N Lavanya, N Varsha, Shaikh Wasim Chand, Pebbeti Chandana, Shivangi, B Naveen Kumar, Rajendra Kumar and Rahul Indar Navsare

Abstract: During the last 5- 6 decades the indiscriminate use of agro-chemicals has adversely affected the soil fertility, crop productivity, quality of agriculture and natural products with particularly the environment. Annually India is loosing nearly 0.8 million tones of nitrogen, 1.8 millions tones of Phosphorus and 26.3 million tones of potassium (Annonymous, 2011). In India, 1% of the cropped area is organic by default as the resource poor farmers cannot purchase high cost inputs like chemical fertilizer, pesticides etc. Hence organic production systems, there is always a challenge of how to improve soil fertility, crop productivity and management of pests by organic techniques. Use of organic liquid preparations has been an age old practice in India. Vedic literatures (Vrikshayurveda) have clearly outlined a systematized agricultural practices that insisted on the use of panchagavya and kunapajala to enhance the biological efficiency of crop plants and the production of fruits and vegetables. The liquid organic manures Panchagavya and Kunapajala has a good potential as manure to improve the physical, chemical and biological properties of soil that leads to enhance the soil fertility, crop productivity and also provide food grains free from the health hazards and also used an alternative against chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Thus, Panchagavya and Kunapajala plays a major role in organic farming and sustainable agriculture. These review paper collected literature mainly emphasizes liquid organics Panchagavya and Kunapajala the need to adopt eco-friendly agricultural practices to improve soil health and crop productivity for sustainable food production.

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