Program & Activities

Ongoing Programs

• Plant Study, Research & Trade Promotion Program
• Plant Conservation & Garden Development Program
• MAPs, NTFP, Herbal Development Program 

  Major activities carried out at Plant Research Centre, Jumla

  • • • Production and distribution of seedlings of MAPs species
      • Community based MAPs cultivation
      • MAPs cultivation programme for minor farmers
      • One Village One Product
      • MAPs survey and phenological study in community forest
      • Traditional knowledge documentation ( Local healers- Dhami, Baidhaya)
      • Landscape and garden management
      • Dhitachour Botanical Garden
      • Conservation
      • Demonstration plot management
      • Domestication and germ-plasm conservation
      • Educational MAPs garden establishment in Community based Schools
      • Training on Conservation, Promotion and Cultivation of MAPs
      • Home Herbal Garden for women
      • Contract farming – Atis
      • Awareness programme- radio program on plants
      • Information Center on MAPs
      • Plant botanical descriptor
      • Mini-seed bank establishment
      • Dendrochronological study of high value MAPs

  Some of the activities done by our office are