A large measurement towards the conservation and promotion of medicinal plants successful Kerala is nether mode with the authorities approving a connection to acceptable up a medicinal works nursery astatine the International Ayurveda Research Centre successful Kannur. The centre, presently nether operation nether the Department of Ayurveda Medical Education, volition dedicate 12 acres of its 200-acre field for the nursery.
According to officials, the task has been sanctioned an archetypal outlay of ₹62.6 lakh for the archetypal twelvemonth from the ₹1.5 crore allocated for probe activities successful the 2025-26 fiscal year. The initiative, to beryllium implemented by the State Medicinal Plant Board, aims to proviso high-quality planting worldly to farmers, researchers and the public, portion besides conserving invaluable taxon and acting arsenic a grooming hub for nursery developers.
The task has 3 cardinal components: a bio vermicompost unit, a medicinal works germplasm postulation unit, and the nursery. The nursery infrastructure volition see a pump house, retention and potting sheds, a propagation house, greenhouse, shadiness location and hardening house. Rain harvesting volition besides beryllium integrated into the project. The semipermanent people is to nutrient 10 lakh seedlings wrong 5 years, with an yearly accumulation of 2 lakh seedlings.
Officials said the task is expected to payment farmers and the wider nationalist crossed Kannur, Kozhikode, Wayanad, and Kasaragod districts. Apart from strengthening Ayurveda-based cultivation, the inaugural volition make nonstop and indirect occupation opportunities for section people. Farmers are besides expected to gain further income by diversifying into medicinal works cultivation, helping to physique a sustainable ecosystem for Ayurveda-related industries successful the region.
The task is portion of the government’s broader imaginativeness to presumption Kannur’s planetary Ayurveda Research Centre arsenic a cardinal hub for technological advancement successful Ayurveda portion promoting accepted cognition systems successful enactment with modern research.
