Medicinal plants facilitation centres

One of the important activities of the National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), an apex body of the Government of India, is area extension of medicinal plants cultivation programmes through training and education. Medicinal plants being new to the farming system, their farming requires an effective institutional mechanism for technology transfer on crops and varieties that can be grown in an agro-climatic zone. Besides, information is required to transfer on the soil suitability for a particular crop, cultivation practices, sources of seeds and quality planting material, market information on prices, ‘mandies’, traders, manufacturers and demand assessment of different species