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Considering the shortage of medicinal plants and the need to sustain ism, cultivation and sustainable harvesting of plants from the wild has become absolutely necessary. One way of solving the problem would be to encourage cultivation by small farmers and tribal people and make big manufacturers of herbal products source their requirements from them.

Rajendra Gupta has identified some techniques for cultivation. The biodiversity-rich areas could be identified and the materials could be grown there. Many tree species could also be grown around agricultural lands or some plants can also be grown along with other plants/crops. For instance, ashwagandha can be grown with soybean and garlic. Cultivation would help one more problem

Publication Date: 
30/01/2001
Down to Earth [2]
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CITES [3], Minor Forest Produce [4], Trade [5], Endangered Species [6], Tribals [7], Traditional Knowledge [8], Herbal Medcine [9], Medicinal Plants [10], Biodiversity [11], Public Participation [12], Governance [13], Tamil Nadu [14], Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand) [15], West Bengal [16], India [17]

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