Abstract

A field experiment was conducted during winter seasons of 2010–11 and 2011–12 to study the effect of organic and inorganic sources of nutrients on growth, yield and quality of ashwagandha var. Jawahar-20. Amongst the applied organic sources of nutrients, farm yard manure (PYM) @ 5 t/ha resulted in maximum growth, yield attributes, yield, quality and net income from ashwagandha. The maximum herbage and root yield from FYM was up to 96.32 and 12.49 q/ha, respectively, with additional net income up to Rs. 39800/ha over biofertilizers. Application of 100% recommended inorganic sources of nutrients (N20P40K20) yielded 98.01 q/ha herbage and 14.02 q/ha roots of ashwagandha with additional net income of Rs. 85600/ha over the control. Thus, FYM was found the most remunerative organic source under the existing agro-climatic conditions of Vindhya region of Madhya Pradesh.