Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

Arun Prasad

Janak Raj Bahl

Sushil Kumar

Suman Preet Singh Khanuja

Ajit Kumar Shasany

Alok Kalra

Raj Kishori Lal

Ravi Prakash Bansal

Om Parkash Dhawan

Ali Arif Naqvi

Hari Om Misra

Alok Krishna

Jawahar Ram Sharma

Rakesh Pandey

Neetu Katiyar

Nilakshi Singh

Harmesh Singh Chauhan

Ramesh Srivastava

A new and distinct high essential oil variety of lemongrass () is named 'Nima'. Further, the invention relates to the high content of the monoterpene citral in the essential oil. This novel variety 'Nima' of lemongrass is a selection from the open pollinated seedlings of the seeds obtained from anothervariety OD 19 from the germ plasm collection of CIMAP. This variety is propagated through vegetative means using the slips and is stable for commercial cultivation.

Citral rich high yielding lemongrass plant 'Nima' of Cymbopogon flexuosus

The present invention relates preparation of superior quality vermicompost from the distillation wastes of aromatic crops said method comprises drying of distillation waste for 24 to 72 hours, obtained after the distillation of herbage for 2-3 h. at 20-25lbs of steam pressure, chopping the waste into small pieces, transferring this material into compost pits containing about 7-10 cm layer of partially rotten cowdung and 400-450 earthworms ( )/m , daily watering of the pits to keep the plant material moist and covering them with gunny bags to check the loss of humidity, reloading the pits (20-30 cm layer) with the chopped distilled waste after 30-35 days, restricting watering after complete degradation of the added material, harvesting of the dried material and shade drying the same for 4-5 days, and sieving the harvested compost to remove earthworms.

Method for the faster multiplication of earthworms, and production of vermicompost from the distillation waste of industrial aromatic crops

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