PIONEER NEWS SERVICE/ Nainital
The two-day national conference on Modern Trends in Medicinal Plants, organised by the Directorate of Visiting Professors and the Botany department of Kumaun University and Uttarakhand State Council of Science and Technology (UCOST) concluded at KU’s DSB campus.
Addressing the first technical session of the concluding day virtually, the scientist of GB Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment at Kosi in Almora K S Kanwal stressed on appropriate conservation of medicinal plants.
Another scientist of the institute, Ashish Pandey said that medicinal plants are a major base of the economy and provided information about global temporal evolution trend and Himalayan medicinal plants. “Currently, most of the research is being done on medicinal plants in China though India is the world’s largest herbal exporter,” he noted.
