The Hindu : Good response to NIAM course

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Thursday, Jul 17, 2003

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Good response to NIAM course

By Our Staff Correspondent

JAIPUR JULY 16. A five-day training programme on "Production and marketing of medicinal plants'' -- currently underway at the National Institute of Agricultural Marketing (NIAM) at Sanganer, near here -- has identified several groups of useful plants threatened with extinction due to over-exploitation and development activities.

A call was given in the residential training programme, aimed mainly at the farmers' orientation, to desist from the practice of hampering the natural growth of medicinal and aromatic plants. The training is the fourth in the series being organised by NIAM in collaboration with the Rajasthan State Medicinal Plants Board.

The NIAM's Director-General, V. Ramnath, said the response of farmers from all over the State was encouraging and had reflected their desire to take up the farming of medicinal plants on a commercial basis. "This trend assures that the increasing demand for these plants will be met in future,'' he said.

The Course Director and Assistant Director of NIAM, Arvind Mathur, said 38 farmers from Rajasthan and Haryana were participating in the training programme. Another course would be launched on July 21, he added.

The Member Secretary of the State Medicinal Plants Board, G.P. Saxena, said comprehensive information with the relevant literature on various aspects of medicinal plants grown and found in different parts of Rajasthan was being provided during the training.

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