Plants require organic Carbon and micronutrients for their growth. Often chemical fertilizers are added to soil to provide these nutrients to plants. Overuse of chemical fertilizers leads to decreased soil fertility, groundwater contamination, soil hardening, the release of greenhouse gases and their production itself consumes non-renewable sources of energy.  Inorganic fertilizers are also known to adversely affect fetal brain development and increase the risk of cancer in adults. So switching to organic fertilizers seems to be a better alternative. Natural growth promoters increase yield without disturbing the natural physiological metabolism while simultaneously controlling pests and pathogens.

The present study aims to create a plant growth promoter from natural ingredients that have been traditionally used in India. It is a mixture of various components, namely: cow dung and cow milk that act as a source of microbial culture, cow urine which acts as a source of micronutrient salts and as an antimicrobial and antifungal, jaggery which acts as a source of organic carbon and cow’s ghee. A small volume of panchagavya culture is added to diversify the microbial flora. The preparation is allowed to ferment for seven days, then filtered and stored at room temperature in the liquid state and this composition was taken to study its plant growth promotion and microbial biodiversity.