Journal of Biology and Nature

A study was conducted to assess the influence of panchagavya on physical and nutritive value of hydroponic fodder maize. Hydroponic fodder was produced as per the protocol for 8 Days. Hydroponic maize fodder was produced using the TANUVAS – UIIC - Low-cost hydroponic green fodder machine at TANUVAS, Chennai, Tamil Nadu during August, 2025.  Two group of Hydroponic maize fodder was produced, one control group and another treatment group. In the six hydroponic trays, three trays have been marked as control and three trays has been marked as treatment. In control tray only maize seeds with plain water were used for germination however in the treatment group maize seed along with regular spray of water, 3% of panchagavya was sprayed at the rate of 100 ml per tray on 3^rd day. Both physical characteristics and Chemical composition was estimated. The results showed that, there was significant (P<0.05) difference between the harvest days in shoot length, leaf weight, stem weight, ash (%) and highly significant (P<0.01) difference between the harvest days in leaf to stem ratio, crude protein (%), NDF (%), ADF (%) in control group. There was significant (P<0.05) difference between the harvest days in root length, leaf weight and highly significant (P<0.01) difference between the harvest days in leaf to stem ratio, ash (%), CP (%), NDF (%) and ADF (%) in treatment group. Also, there was significant (P<0.05) difference between the control group and treatment group in ash (%) (on 8^th day), CP (%) (on 6^th day), NDF (%) (on 7^th day) and ADF (%) (on 7^th day) and highly significant (P<0.01) difference in leaf to stem ratio (on 8^th day), CP (%) (on 7^th day). The results conclude that application of panchagavya has beneficiary effect on physical and nutritive value of hydroponic fodder maize however, utilization of panchagavya on large scale basis require further research on priority.