D. PRADEEP KUMAR, N. VANI*, V. PRABHAVATHI AND P. SUMATHI

Department of Agri. Business Management, S.V. Agricultural Campus, Tirupati – 517-502.

ABSTRACT

The economics of medicinal and aromatic plants viz., coleus and palmarosa has been worked out using farm- level data from the districts of Chittoor and Mahabubnagar in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states respectively. The net returns over total costs have been found ` 161547.58 ha-1 in coleus and ` 77815.70 from main crop and ` 42568.57, ` 38385.33 and ` 34772.22 for ratoon I, II and III respectively.

KEYWORDS:

Medicinal and aromatic plants, coleus, palmarosa