Medicinal Plants 
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Meet to save medicinal plants
DEPARTMENT of Botany, Pachaiyappa's College, held an international conference on medicinal plants and herbal drugs, exploring the challenges and opportuni- ties in their conservation, on Thursday.
- Date:
- 05/03/2010
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- New Indian Express (Chennai)
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Karela may be giant cancer slayer
US Study Led By Indian-Origin Scientist Finds Vegetable Prevents Disease From Spreading
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- 25/02/2010
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- Times Of India (New Delhi)
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US centre sees cure in usual greens
A US-based university has found medicinal values in vegetables grown in Karnataka.
Studies conducted over two decades at Texas A&M University show that consumption of carrot, onion, chilli and lemon grown in Karnataka can reduce the risk of cancer.
- Date:
- 23/02/2010
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- Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
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Minimum support price for medicinal plants promised
SALEM: The State government will take steps to fix the price of medicinal plants for encouraging farmers to take up cultivation of such plants on a larger scale, Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S. Arumugam said here on Thursday.
- Date:
- 29/01/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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HP emerging as herbal state
With the Patanjali Yog Peeth all set to open up in Solan district, Himachal is fast emerging as a herbal state as one crore herbal and medicinal plants are being planted under the “Jan Jan Sanjivini Van Abhiyaan” community programme.
The plantation of herbs and medicinal plants will be taken up on 2,500 hectares of land through 525 joint forest management committees (JFMC).
- Date:
- 18/01/2010
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- Tribune (New Delhi)
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Raising certain medicinal plants highly rewarding: expert
VILLUPURAM: Cultivation of a medicinal plant termed gloriosa superba (kanvazhi kizhangu in Tamil) will be quite a rewarding proposition, according to P. David Raja Beula, Assistant Director of Horticulture Department, Thiruvennainallur.
- Date:
- 18/01/2010
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- Hindu (Chennai)
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Jain potato, a potent oral male contraceptive!
High Content Of Natural Steroid Found In It Has Medicinal Properties
Himanshu Bhatt | TNN
- Date:
- 11/01/2010
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- Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
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India sets bio-diversity agenda
As part of its initiative under the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB), India has chalked out an 11-point goal to achieve the 2010 bio-diversity targets. Protection of world-famous one-horned rhino is set out as one of the goals.
- Date:
- 05/01/2010
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- Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
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Cabinet approves medicinal plant promotion
The State government today approved a new strategy to promote the plantation and processing of medicinal and aromatic plants in the state.
- Date:
- 02/12/2009
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- Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
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Distribution and conservation status of sacred groves (SGs) in Garo Hills, Meghalaya
On a global scale, the existing Sacred Groves (SGs) follow ancestral worship on conservation in forest patches. SGs are distributed over a wide ecosystem and help in conservation of rare and endemic species. Well preserved SGs are store houses of biological, ecological, medicinal, ethno-cultural and religious values.
- Date:
- Dec 2009
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- Indian Forester Vol: 135 Issue: 12 pp: 1627-1649
