Recent trends in organic priming for germination enforcement: enhancing crop yield with sustainable agricultural practices

Due to its potential to increase crop yield and support sustainable farming methods, organic priming, the technique of treating seeds with advantageous naturally occurring substances or organic formulations before sowing, has drawn much interest in contemporary agriculture. Recent developments in organic priming have shown how it may boost nutrient availability and encourage plant growth, all of which increase yield. An experiment was conducted at the Vegetable Research Farm (Kalyanpur), Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208002, India, using a Randomized Block Design. The research was carried out oncoriander cv. Azad Dhania-1 during 2023-24 and 2024-25 by taking different priming treatments, viz. control (without priming), hydropriming for 24 h soaking, vermiwash (15% for 24 h soaking), cow urine (20% for 24 h soaking), panchgavya (20% for 24 h soaking), humic acid (20% for 24 h soaking), GA₃ (50 ppm for 24 h soaking)_, IAA (50 ppm for 24 h soaking), Cytokinin (100 ppm for 16 h soaking), KNO₃ (3% for 16 h soaking), and NaCl (4 gl^-1 for 16 h soaking). Precise results were obtained in panchgavya (20%) for the number of primary branches (7.61) and number of secondary branches (10.72), while, in humic acid (20%), thenumber of tertiary branches (4.06), number of umbel plant^-1 (42.94), number of seed umbel^-1 (41.88), raw seed yield plant^-1 (11.63 g), graded seed yield plant^-1 (10.48 g), raw seed yield plot^-1 (0.767 kg), graded seed yield plot^-1 (0.692 kg), raw seed yield ha^-1 (1534.72 kg), and graded seed yield ha^-1 (1383.84 kg) differed in the pooled compared to control samples. Thus, it may be concluded that priming with organics such as humic acid and panchgavya are more beneficial in achieving improved growth and yield in coriander.