| MEDICINAL PLANTS FACILITATION CENTRE
Medicinal Plants Facilitation Centre is also functioning under ATIC, TNAU, Coimbatore – 3.
Objectives
- To provide service to growers on medicinal plants cultivation.
- To act as a house of information on the elite germplasm of medicinal plants, the species to be planted based on market demand and agro – climatic suitability, list of traders, manufacturers within the state and adjoining state, agro – technique and practices relating to collection, harvesting, storage, drying and value addition.
- To provide training on the formulation of projects on medicinal plants cultivation and development.
- To organize frequent buyer – seller meet for establishing linkages between cultivation and marketing in order to encourage market driven cultivation.
- To develop modules of training besides conduct of training programmes for farmers.
- To publish and disseminate information on agro – techniques, markets, prices, mandies, traders, industries etc. in local languages.
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