As a lot as 10 per cent of 900 main medicinal plant species present in India are dealing with the specter of extinction, consultants have stated.
Solely 15 per cent of medicinal crops that are endemic to India are cultivated whereas the remainder are merely sourced from forests, they added, talking on the ninth World Ayurveda Congress (WAC) right here. The four-day WAC concluded on Sunday.
Ten per cent of the 900 main medicinal crops in India fall below the “threatened” class, stated J A C S Rao, CEO of the State Medicinal and Fragrant Vegetation Board, Chhattisgarh. Earth is shedding one potential medicinal plant each two years at an extinction fee that’s hundred instances quicker than the pure course of, he stated. Overexploitation, the drug business’s excessive dependence on wildlife inhabitants, habitat destruction and urbanisation have been a number of the causes for this case, Rao stated.
“We’ve got to undertake conservation methods like discipline research, correct documentation, mitigation measures, enactment of particular legal guidelines like Endangered Species Act, 1973, and restoration programmes,” he added.
Dr Pradip Vithal Sarmokadam, Member Secretary, State Biodiversity Board, Goa, stated that India has about 45,000 plant species and seven,333 of them are medicinal fragrant crops. “However solely 15 per cent of medicinal crops are cultivated whereas the remaining 85 per cent are collected by the business from forest ecosystems and different pure habitats,” he stated.
Former Union AYUSH Ministry Joint Secretary and ex-CEO of the Nationwide Medicinal Vegetation Board Jitendra Sharma stated a proper linkage of provide chains from the augmented sources from the wild is an enormous problem. He stated an modification is required within the Indian Forest Act, 1927, as there isn’t a provision for a nationwide transit allow that enables the transit of forest produce from one a part of the nation to different.
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