Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 26: CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine and National Medicinal Plants Board, Ministry of AYUSH, conducted a one-day Buyer-Seller Meet on Medicinal and Aromatic plant sector for the growers, startup and industries at CSIR-IIIM, Branch Lab. Srinagar.
Dr Zabeer Ahmed, Director CSIR-IIIM, was the chief guest. Dr Suresh Sharma, Director, AYUSH J&K and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of J&K Medicinal Plant Board was the guest of honour while as Kavita Tyagi, Consultant, Medicinal and Agronomy, NMPB; Prof T H Masoodi, Nodal Office, RCFC North NMPB-II and Prof Mansoor Wani, HoD Botany, Kashmir University were on presidium.
The program was attended by farmers from different districts of Kashmir region and the buyers from across country. The main objective of the programme was to interact with the growers & entrepreneurs of Medicinal plant sector & discuss about some challenges faced by growers in value addition & selling of their products in open market easily.
Dr Zabeer Ahmed, Director CSIR-IIIM, while speaking at the inaugural session, emphasised on the importance of medicinal and aromatic plant sector in drug discovery & uplifting the farming community through enhanced income generation by cultivating medicinal and aromatic plants. He highlighted that having harbouring more than 3000 medicinal plants species in the region, there are ample opportunities for the Indian stakeholders to position herbal based standardised products into the global market.
Dr Suresh Sharma in his keynote address, gave the details of various schemes & the projects being funded and implemented by the Board and the AYUSH in the region.
Kavita Tyagi, Prof T H Masoodi. Prof Mansoor Wani besides the representatives of farmers, startup and industries also spoke on the occasion.
Earlier, Dr Waheed Ul Hassan, gave insights into the proceedings of this one-day workshop.
In the technical session, five expert lectures were delivered by Dr Qazi Pervaiz Hassan, Dr Waheed Ul Hassan, Dr Phalisteen Sultan and Manzoor Javaid,
A formal vote of thanks was presented by Dr. Mushtaq Ahmad Payer, District Ayush officer, Srinagar whileas Dr. Shazia Mukhtar, Medical, AYUH conducted the proceeding.
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