Author: S S Samant
U Dhar/L M S Palni
Publisher: Gyanodaya Prakashan
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 435
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185097542
Description
The book includes Inaugural address, Keynote address and 26 papers of the experts working in different biogeographic provinces of the Himalaya and covers the following themes:
Status of Himalayan medicinal Plants: Inventory, folk and ethnobotary
Population studies of threatened medicinal plants
Current status of propagation methods
Cultivation and domestication
Utilization, extraction and phytochemical investigations
In addition, the volume provides valuable head in the form of recommendations, which are the outcome of the issues discussed at the end of each Technical Session and also, the inputs given by the experts in the draft manuscript of the recommendations.
The editors hope that the volume would be of immense help to all workers interested in the identified priority areas and also, to farmers, planners, conservationists, students and teachers.
Contents
About the Institute
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Inaugural lecture: Need for a comprehensive approach to medicinal Plants
A K Ahuja
Keynote address: Status of medicinal plants in Indian Himalaya
N C Shah
TECHNICAL SESSION I:
Status of Himalayan Medicinal Plants: Inventory, Folk and Ethnobotany
TECHNICAL SESSION II:
Population Studies: Threatened Medicinal Plants
TECHNICAL SESSION III:
Propagation Methods: Current Status
TECHNICAL SESSION IV:
Cultivation and domestication
TECHNICAL SESSION V:
Utilization, Extraction, and Phytochemical Investigations
Future Action Plan:
Issues and Priorities