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The mung bean grows on a wide range of soils but prefers well-drained loams or sandy loams, with a pH range from 5 to 8. The intensity of some abiotic stresses has increased as water from the soil gets depleted faster under the conditions imposed by climate change. Hence it is essential to carry out studies on the impact of heavy metal stress on plants by simultaneous application of several stress factors such as heat, drought, light, and salinity. Since most of the information concerning plant defense mechanisms against heavy metal toxicity comes from adult plants, it is needed to conduct more studies with young plants to compare their defense system and adult plants against heavy metal stress. There is a great need to find out how heavy metals affect crop plants in low input sustainable farming practices where there is a considerable emphasis in terms of supplying soil with organic fertilizers with the objective of maintaining and boosting the association between naturally occurring or artificially introduced plants. The toxic effect of different concentrations of cadmium viz. 20, 40, 60 and 80 mg/l distilled water was evaluated on seed germination of Phaseolus aureus with and without organic liquid formulation jeevamrutham. The results of the present study showed that cadmium concentrations cause negative effect on seed germination of mung bean as the concentration of cadmium increases the germination percentage decreases. The seeds treated with jeevamrutham showed considerable increase in germination percentage. Application of Jeevamrutham showed positive effect on the germination of seeds under cadmium stress.