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The Jammu and Kashmir Medicinal Plants Introduction Centre-JKMPIC, is a pioneer institution to start cultivation of important indigenous medicinal plants and introduce many from other parts of the world. A preliminary study on cultivation of medicinal plants in Jammu and Kashmir was from this institution. The medicinal plant garden created, grown and nurtured by JKMPIC around its unit complex contains Kashmir’s largest privately owned collection of medicinal plants, spanning over 200 varieties, including rare and endemic medicinal plants.
The
garden is a treasure of herbal remedies that have been used for thousands of
years by our ancestors for healing, health and beauty. All plants in the garden
are carefully conserved for future generations further, a tissue culture lab.
Established within the medicinal plant garden propagates and distributes rare
medicinal plants as a further conservation effort. The plant introduction centre
also nestled within the garden carries out advanced plant study into the medicinal plants in the garden,
researching and validating their traditional uses.
Availability of Cultivated planting material, tree
saplings, herb seed, flower seeds, fruit plants, creepers &
climbers, medicinal herbs, herbal roots, crude drugs, bulbs, tree
bark, herbal tea, corms, rhizomes, stem tubers & root tubers, aromatic
plants.
