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Plea to produce medicinal plants
TWO-DAY seminar on the technique of medicinal plant cultivation concluded here on Wednesday with the observations that a real practical strategy to produce more medicinal plants be chalked out in association with different departments engaged in the developing medicinal plants.
TWO-DAY seminar on the technique of medicinal plant cultivation concluded here on Wednesday with the observations that a real practical strategy to produce more medicinal plants be chalked out in association with different departments engaged in the developing medicinal plants.
Over one hundred participants attended the seminar from different departments and the universities. On the occasion, a book on the medicinal plants was also released. The book carried out important information about the values of these plants and the latest scientific techniques.
Highlighting the need of the medicinal plants, the vice-chancellor of the Chandra Shekhar Azad Agriculture and Technology University (CSA) Dr MM Agarwal said, “Time has come to shed our love for allopathic medicines, as they have prod to carry serious after-effects on the human body.” He said unless medicinal values of the plants were identified and their effects on human bodies were recorded with correctness the allopathic system of medicine would continue to attract the people.
Dr Munish Gangwar spoke about the new techniques, which could help medicinal plants cultivation in different climates. Citing an example, he said that due to the latest research results now the farmers could grow mulethi in any of the states of the country irrespective of climatic limitation for the herb.
He said that Indian mulethi lacked the higher medicinal properties, as compared to the mulethi grown in Japan. But so far the Japanese mulethi could not be cultivated in India due to in-congenial climatic conditions. But the recent researches have made it possible to cultivate Japanese mulethi even in this country.
Dr HP Chaudhari of the department of Forestry warned against illogical limiting of forest cover area for agriculture or for the commercial purposes. Vanishing of the forest has caused several serious threats to the environment and the human health. He said any of the unheard diseases might be the effect of depleting forest cover area in the country.
Several other agro scientists who spoke on the occasion stressed upon the need of cultivating medicinal plants, which had economic and medicinal values.
