Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Experiments were conducted to determine the efficacy of various vermicomposts produced from agro- and distillation-waste of medicinal and aromatic crops on hatching of eggs of Meloidogyne incognita (Kofoid and White) Chitwood and root-knot disease development in tomato.
Lakshmi Prasad brought his hands together to go around the palm-tree trunk, pulled one foot in front of the other, and smiled for the camera. His toes kept up the pressure on the trunk with an alacrity belying his 73 years and Prasad crawled up alternately moving his feet and …
DEPARTMENT of Botany, Pachaiyappa's College, held an international conference on medicinal plants and herbal drugs, exploring the challenges and opportuni- ties in their conservation, on Thursday. Dr Isari K Ganesh, Pa- chaiyappas' Trust presi- dent, and Vel's University Chancellor, highlighted how the college's science programmes are famous world over and …
Forestry CDM projects involving afforestation and reforestation offer opportunities for CO2 mitigation by removal of accumulated CO2 in atmosphere and sequester it in vegetation, soil and wood products. The present study on plantation of tree species of medicinal importance such as Amla, Arjun, Bael, Bahera, Harar, Jamun, Neem and Reetha …
Healthy ecosystems play a vital role in providing food and clean water, controlling infectious diseases, absorbing wastes, regulating climate and are the source of much of the cultural, spiritual and recreational inspiration needed to maintain mental and physical health. Unfortunately human actions are putting increasing pressure on ecosystems. This, the …
To find out which medicinal plants are becoming extinct and if climate change is really the only reason Civil Society spoke to DK Ved, director of the Foundation for the Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT), in Bangalore. FRLHT has done pioneering work on medicinal plants and Indian systems of …
A month ago I found myself dodging traffic in one of Chennai’s older areas, Mylapore. I was on an errand to buy a herbal medicine for a cousin. The shop I was looking for is well-known but hard to locate. Dabba Chetty Shop, as it is called, is tucked away …
A US-based university has found medicinal values in vegetables grown in Karnataka. Studies conducted over two decades at Texas A&M; University show that consumption of carrot, onion, chilli and lemon grown in Karnataka can reduce the risk of cancer. According to the studies, lemon can reduce the risk of pancreatic …
The value of the banyan tree is no mystery to traditional medical practitioners in India. For years they have been prescribing preparations containing latex of the banyan tree (Ficus bengalensis) to people suffering from joint pains and inflammation. Scientists from Maharashtra tested its efficacy on mice and agreed it is …
SALEM: The State government will take steps to fix the price of medicinal plants for encouraging farmers to take up cultivation of such plants on a larger scale, Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S. Arumugam said here on Thursday. Inaugurating a State-level seminar on cultivation of medicinal plants and exhibition, he said …
With the Patanjali Yog Peeth all set to open up in Solan district, Himachal is fast emerging as a herbal state as one crore herbal and medicinal plants are being planted under the
VILLUPURAM: Cultivation of a medicinal plant termed gloriosa superba (kanvazhi kizhangu in Tamil) will be quite a rewarding proposition, according to P. David Raja Beula, Assistant Director of Horticulture Department, Thiruvennainallur. In a statement released here Mr. Beula stated that the horticulture department had demonstrated that through precision farming the …
High Content Of Natural Steroid Found In It Has Medicinal Properties Himanshu Bhatt | TNN Surat: Potato is the most commonly consumed vegetable in the world. The same potato if grown on creepers and not under the soil can work wonders. This variety of potato has a high content of …
As part of its initiative under the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB), India has chalked out an 11-point goal to achieve the 2010 bio-diversity targets. Protection of world-famous one-horned rhino is set out as one of the goals. Addressing a press conference, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forest …
The use of herbal and aromatic plants in textile and non-textile related fields is very important. Thus the natural wealth of Uttarakhand has a very bright future. In India till now, no systematic efforts have been made to develop the growth, protection and the use of these herbal plants.
Ficus religiosa Linn is a large evergreen tree found throughout India, wild as well as cultivated. It is popular indigenous system of medicine like Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homeopathy. In traditional system of medicine, various parts such as stem bark, root bark aerial roots, vegetative buds, leaves, fruits and latex …
The State government today approved a new strategy to promote the plantation and processing of medicinal and aromatic plants in the state. A Cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, took the decision aiming at boosting cultivation of medicinal plants and to augment employment scopes based on them. …
On a global scale, the existing Sacred Groves (SGs) follow ancestral worship on conservation in forest patches. SGs are distributed over a wide ecosystem and help in conservation of rare and endemic species. Well preserved SGs are store houses of biological, ecological, medicinal, ethno-cultural and religious values. During November 2006 …
