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Medicinal Crops

Safed Musili is an indigenous plant and is used in Ayurvedic and Unani medicine as a “Rasayan” or “adaptogen”.

It is found in tropical wet forests in peninsular India

Safed Musli is cultivated in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan

Roots and leaves are economically important in Safed Musli

Benefits of Safed Musli:

Safed Musli is a herb with sub erect leaves and a tuberous root system

Leaves are long slender growing in rosette, arising from a thick fleshy rhizome

Flowers are white colored, small in size and borne in panicles.

20-25 flowers are borne per flowering stick and these appear profusely in the month of July

Seed are light weight and are very small

Safed Musli is propagated vegetatively

No major challenges have been reported

Crop Stage	Products	Dosage	Method Of Application	Benefits
Inorganic fertilizer	Geoxol.COM	15 kg / hectare / application with basal fertilizer, if soil organic carbon (more than / equal to 0.5%) and bulk denisty (less than or equal to 1.6 g / cm3)	Soil Application	Rejuvenates soil for sustainable growth of crops
Organic fertilizer	Mycoxol4G	500 g / hectare / application, if soil pH (less than / equal to 7.5) and available P (more than / equal to 15 kg / ha)	Soil Application	Reduces incidence of soil borne diseases, improves availability of phosphorous and other micronutrients
Vegetative	PeakMAX	1000 ml / hectare / application	Foliar Application	Improves vegetative growth and reduces disease pressure
Vegetative	Privid	1200 ml / hectare / application	Foliar Application	Promotes vegetative growth
Pre flowering	Silixol OSA	1200 ml / hectare / application	Foliar Application	Promotes vegetative growth
Pre flowering	PeakMAX	"1000 ml / hectare / application "	Foliar Application	Reduces disease pressure
Flowering	Silixol OSA	1000 ml / hectare / application	Foliar Application	Improves accumulation of secondary metabolites

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