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Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Medicinal and Aromatic plants form a numerically large group of economically important plants which provide basic raw materials for medicines, perfumes, flavors and cosmetics. These plants and their products not only serve as valuable source of income for small holders and entrepreneurs but also help the country to earn valuable foreign exchange by way of export. Kalmegh is an important medicinal plant that has been effectively used in traditional Asian medicines for centuries. A field experiment was conducted during kharif season of 2015 at G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar (Uttarakhand). The soil of the experimental area was silty clay loam in texture, the experiment, comprising of ten treatments, which were conducted in Randomized Block Design with three replications. All the treatments significantly increased fresh and dry herbage yield as compared to weedy check treatment. Maximum fresh and dry herbage yield (25.070 t/ha) was recorded in weed free treatment. The highest and lowest gross return, net return and B: C ratio was recorded in weed free and weedy check treatment, respectively.