Prospect of Medicinal Plant Cultivation in Marginal and Degraded Lands
B. B. Basak*
ICAR-Directorate of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research, Anand, Gujarat (387 310), India
Ajoy Saha
ICAR-Directorate of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research, Anand, Gujarat (387 310), India
Regional Centre of ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Bangalore, Karnataka (560 089), India
Sowmya N.
ICAR-Directorate of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research, Anand, Gujarat (387 310), India
Rohan Sarkar
ICAR-Directorate of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research, Anand, Gujarat (387 310), India
A. P. Trivedi
ICAR-Directorate of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research, Anand, Gujarat (387 310), India
DOI: NIL
Keywords: Degraded land, Ecological benefits, Medicinal plant, Secondary metabolites
Abstract
Land degradation is a common problem and almost 20% of the geographical area of India is occupied by the degraded land. To meet the global need of the population, restoration of degraded and marginal land is important for social-economic and environmental point of view. Conventional reclamation strategies like physico-chemical and biological method are not practical and cost-intensive. Revegetation could be a good rehabilitation process for degraded land. For this medicinal plant can be considered as a good candidate for revegetation since under stress condition medicinal plant produces large quantities of secondary metabolites which can help them to alleviate the stress they faced when grown in degraded land. Moreover, cultivation of medicinal plant is also lucrative option due to production of high-added-value final products. Therefore, adoption of medicinal plant in degraded and marginal land may help to restore this wasteland and also to achieve the objectives of sustainable development goals (SDGs).
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