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Clusters to tone up productivity of medicinal plants

TUTICORIN: The National Medicinal Plants Board will adopt a cluster approach to improving productivity of medicinal plants during the 11th Plan period, its Chief Executive Officer B. S. Sajwan has said.

Speaking to The Hindu here, he said 100 districts all over the country had been tentatively identified for the establishment of clusters that would comprise growers and sellers of medicinal plants.

As part of the cluster development activities, for which Rs. 600 crore has been set aside, subsidy will be extended for establishing common processing centres, state-of-the-art quality testing centres, warehouses and common drier facilities, in each cluster. “Our aim is to plug the critical gaps in the supply chain,” Mr. Sajwan said.

The Board has worked out a Rs.320-crore project for protecting medicinal plants grown in the wild.

To be implemented during the 11th Plan period, the project would help to boost conservation, development and sustainable management of medicinal plants found in forests with the help of tribes. “The Board will try to enhance the resource base, since many species are destructively harvested now.”

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