Concept of herbal biofertilizer for cultivation of medicinal plants with high quantity and quality secondary metabolites

Abstract

The biofertilizer prepared from biodegradable house-hold wastes has been found to be high quality nutrient supplier to crop plants. Such biofertilizers with addition of dried and powdered leaves of certain medicinal plants have been transformed into herbal biofertilizers which have also been shown to have additional quality to control soil-borne pathogens. The medicinal plants, cultivated using the chemical fertilizers and pesticides, have shown to reduce of quality of alkaloids and phytochemicals. Therefore, there is a potential need to use herbal based biofertilizers for medicinal plant cultivation for harvesting high quality pharmacentical ingredients in high quantity.