abstract the agronomic performance and chemical composition of tagetes minuta l. was evaluated in a new agro-climatic region of semiarid tropical india. t minuta performed well under these conditions and responded to application of 50 kg n/ha. analysis of the leaf and flower oils by gc revealed that the leaf oil contained dihydrotagetone (6l.0%) and (z)-tagetone (16.1%), while the flower oil was rich in (z)--ocimene (47.9%) and (z)-tagetenone (19-6%).