Establishment of a Herbal Garden at Aziz Abad,
Jammu and Kashmir with plantation of approximately 350 medicinal plants.
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The Jammu and
Kashmir Medicinal Plants Introduction Centre-JKMPIC,
is a pioneer institution to start cultivation of important indigenous medicinal
plants and introduce many from other parts of the world. A preliminary study on
cultivation of medicinal plants in Jammu and Kashmir was from this institution.
The medicinal plant garden created, grown and nurtured by JKMPIC around
its unit complex contains Kashmir’s largest privately owned collection of
medicinal plants, spanning over 200 varieties, including rare and endemic
medicinal plants.
The
garden is a treasure teove of herbal remedies that have been used for thousands
of years by our ancestors for healing, health and beauty. All plants in the
garden are carefully conserved for future generations further, a tissue culture
lab. Established within the medicinal plant garden propagates and distributes
rare medicinal plants as a further conservation effort. The plant introduction
centre also nestled within the garden carries out advanced plant study into the medicinal plants in the garden,
researching and validating their traditional uses.
Availability of planting material, tree
saplings, herb seed, flower seeds, fruit plants, creepers &
climbers, medicinal herbs, herbal roots, crude drugs, bulbs, tree
bark, herbal tea, corms, rhizomes, stem tubers & root tubers, aromatic
plants.
For more details:-
Sheikh GULZAAR
Head (Research R & D)
The Jammu and Kashmir Medicinal
Plants Introduction Centre
POB: 667 GPO Srinagar SGR JK 190001
Ph: (Resi) 01933-223705
Mob: 09858986794/09419966983
e-mail: jkmpic@gmail.com
