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. …
Indore: Even after getting a whopping Rs 18 lakh for the medicinal plantation under the compensatory afforestation project, the proceedings for the work has been stuck due to the budget yet to be released by the state government. Compensatory afforestation, in a laymans language is a process to assuage the …
The Government has announced the creation of six projects in public-private partnership mode in non-timber forest produce (NTFP), covering around 60 Naxal-affected districts in the country. The projects, to be executed within six months, will cover Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, according to a Rural Development …
The National Committee for Protection of Natural Resources today said it would move the Supreme Court after receiving a detailed report on illegal mining at Kappat Gudda hill ranges in Gadag district and asked Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda order a Lokayukta probe into it. Speaking to reporters here, …
A quarter of world’s forests are in mountain areas. These forests typically have high biodiversity, and provide many goods and services for people both in the mountains and the lowlands, often far away. Mountain forests are important as sources of wood, as well as other products such as medical herbs. …
Cissampelos pareira L. and Tinospora cordifolia (Willd.) Hook.f. & Thoms inhibited the propagation of rodent parasite Plasmodium berghei in vivo. In a typical fourday experiment, the BALB/c mice were administered with ethanol extracts of Cissampelos pareira L. and Tinospora cordifolia (Willd.) Hook.f. & Thoms. The parasitaemian in untreated control group …
GUWAHATI: The country’s North Eastern region is rich in medicinal plants, but indiscriminate and unscientific collection is forcing many of the species into the verge of extinction, say experts. This matter was raised in a recent seminar organised by the apex funding institution of the region, the North Eastern Development …
The country’s north eastern region is rich in medicinal plants, but indiscriminate and unscientific collection is forcing many of the species into the verge of extinction, according to experts. This matter was raised in a recent seminar organised by the apex funding institution of the region, the North Eastern Development …
Agartala: The autonomous Tripura Forest Development and Plantation Corporation has decided to encourage bamboo cultivation and medicinal plant and rare herb plantations besides rubber, officials said on Saturday. “The plan will be implemented across Tripura where tribals were given land pattas under Forest Right Act,” TFDPC officials said. About 1.18 …
Bhubaneswar: Though Odisha possesses a vast stock of medicinal plants, it still loses an annual revenue to the tune of Rs 500 crore due to absence of a herbal market. While the state government is having tall talks on spending crores of rupees for creation of medicinal plant forests, it …
Since its establishment in February 2003 the Uttarakhand Bio Technology Department has undertaken different works for facilitating conservation of the State’s ecology, environment and rich bio-diversity while encouraging bio technology research and related industries. According to the Bio Technology director JMS Rana, the department established plant tissue culture laboratories in …
Rajasthan Medical and Health Minister Aimaduddin Ahmed Khan has laid emphasis on expansion of Indian systems of medicine and improving the standard of their drugs to maintain people's faith in these streams for treatment of serious diseases. Addressing a meeting with private drug manufacturers for running a speciality clinic here …
Uttarakhand is the only State in India with more than 12,000 Van Panchayats and nearly one lakh members. A total of 10 meetings and workshops have been held in all districts during the past year to facilitate their development under the Chief Minister’s plan for strengthening Van Panchayats. Various issues …
WHETHER taken for severe ailments like cancer or used occasionally for minor pains, painkillers have side-effects. It can be anything from lethargy and constipation to kidney or liver dysfunction. This is the reason scientists have lately turned to nature and are exploring traditional medicines in search of a drug with …
The Bio-diversity Board has got the work of documentation of vegetation in Vindhya eco-region done through a project run by Government Model Science College, Rewa after conducting a survey of medicinal plants. In all, 850 species of plants were inspected in Rewa, Satna, Sidhi, Shahdol, Umaria and Anuppur districts of …
The Uttarakhand biotechnology department has decided to set up a biotech park in the hill state in order to promote industries based on the technology. “Uttarakhand being particularly rich in biodiversity aims to convert its bio-wealth into economic wealth through the application of biotechnology by promoting industries based on the …
The activists opposing the commercialization of Bt brinjal have asserted that Bt brinjal would seriously affect the use of brinjal in the Alternative and Complementary Systems of Medicine (ACSM) in India, through ‘loss of synergy’. The then Minister for Environment and Forests (MoEF), Government of India (GoI), repeatedly echoed this …
The opposition to BT brinjal has partly arisen because some Solanum species are widely used in Indian medicine. According to Prof. C Kamswara Rao of the Foundation of Biotechnology Awareness and Education (FBAE), Bangalore, he clarifies in a recent book that brinjal is not a medicinal plant; rather, Solanum medicines …
CUMIN or jeera, extensively used in Indian cuisine, is known to possess antiparasitic and antimicrobial properties. It is also used to cure fever and as a painkiller. One of the variants of cumin, bitter cumin (kalijiri), has been studied for its antianalgesic and astringent properties. It is a dried seed …
The present study comprises of field trips in different rural localities of Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram districts of Kerala. Information regarding the occurrence of plant species, their local names, parts ued, formulations and vegetable preparations through interviews and discussions held with elderly persons of rural communities were recorded. The plant specimens …
