Enenterprise for sustainable livelihoods

The project funded by the National Medicinal Plants Board, Government of India, envisages to establish herbal gardens in TERI, Supi, and Gual Pahari as regional resource centres of learning, wherein there is authentic and thorough documentation available of the natural and cultural heritage of the region relating to medicinal plants. Each herbal garden will be divided into four compartments, which include (1) conservation area; (2) plant multiplication or nursery management; (3) processing and product display zone; and (4) training, educational, and recreational area. These herbal gardens will serve as community conservation education, knowledge-management centres, and repositories of the regions medicinal plant resources and local health knowledge.