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• Agro-Techniques for 104 Medicinal Plants have been developed and

published.6 Herbal Gardens of National importance developed in different
parts of India. E.g., Herbal Garden at Nilambur, Kerala etc.

• Published comic book “Professor AYUSHMAN” for Children on Medicinal
Plants & their values.

• Released E Book “20 Medicinal Plants of 21 for Covid-19 Care” to create
awareness on use of medicinal plants in Covid-19 care.

• Medicinal plant species specific campaign like Amla, Giloy (Amrita for
Life), etc. and “20 Medicinal Plants for 2020 campaign” has created

awareness among the masses.
• “Ayush Aapke Dwar” campaign under Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav to distribute

medicinal plants saplings to the households.
• Regular Buyer Seller meets to create market linkage between Farmers and

Industry.
• Established one National Raw Drug Repository and four Regional Raw

Drug Repositories throughout India.
• Demand & Supply study on Medicinal Plants was done by Indian Council of

Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), Dehradun during 2014-15.
• Voluntary Certification Scheme for medicinal plant produce, launched on

22.11.2017
• IT initiatives:

- NMPB has developed an online portal cum android based application for
trading of medicinal plants named “e-CHARAK” to enable trading and

information exchange between various stakeholders involved in the medicinal
plants sector.

- NMPB Helpline: To address specific issues faced by various stakeholders
across medicinal plants supply chain viz., QPM nursery, cultivation, plant

protection, post-harvest management, marketing etc.
• Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) in process:

Under these sponsored/financially supported research projects, NMPB so far
identified five unique projects which are novel in nature and patentable. They

are:
- Bio-production of secondary metabolites from Aegle marmelos (R&D/TN-

04/2006-07).
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