Medicinal and Aromatic Crops Future Strategies

Future Strategies

  • Research in medicinal plants including crop improvement, management on line with requirement of user industry and the farmers.
  • Research focus to be on post-harvest management and storage
  • Promotion of cropwise Farmer Producer Organisation/ clusters to take up large area farming and ensure better crop returns to farmers
  • Promotion of value addition hubs to take up processing, extraction, distillation of essential oil, herbal food products, cosmetics to facilitate more value for the product
  • Creating awareness to adopt Good Agricultural Practices and Organic Practices (certified production) to ensure confidence among the consumers.