Tuesday, December 30, 2008

First clone multi-plantation garden to come up in Ajmer


AJMER: To save regional flora in the land of Rajasthan, forest department took the initiative to establish Rajasthan first clone multi plantation garden in Ajmer. The garden would witness the growth of rare Aruvedic species of semi desert region. More than 35 species of Arudev has been identified in Rajasthan which are auspicious for Aruved and homeopathy. The garden would develop mother plant and clone of endanger species.

One can take a turn to the foot hills of Aravllis and found dense plantation of vajerdanti, googal and chironj. "They are the products which are costly and demanded overseas" said Subhash Jain, an exporter of aruvedic medicines. The importance of these plants is that they are even use in Allopathic treatment. "Like vajerdanti which is useful in toothpaste and mouth ulcer" said aruved doctor. The goggle plant which is important as anti biotic are now listed in rare species. The property of this plant is that it kills the germs in the air too.

"We are planning to cultivate mother plant of this species and then distribute to the local people who are interested in plantation" said K.C. Meena divisional forest officer. According to him well equipped nursery would be prepared for the production of these plants in large number. In Ajmer only half a dozen verity of goggle grows. There are other species which are origin of desert land Jodhpur and Jaiselmer.
Meanwhile the department has identified Googra nursery situated on the gateway of Ajmer from Jaipur. "People are not aware about the importance of goggle and therefore it is used as wood fuel in rural areas" said forest officer. The department has started preparing base material of this plant in the nursery. "We are going to use one hectare of land in the garden to confirm the growth of this plant" added Meena.

The theme of this garden is to prepare a bank of plants. There are several verities alone in the goggle and it is needed to develop and improve the species" said an agriculture scientist Googra nursery is based on the hill step and most of its part is on the hilly region. "The place is right for developing every sort of species in the area" said J.P. Bhati, assistant forest conservator. He said that forest headquarter has released the budget for establishing the garden.

Beside goggle the department would collect the plants of different species all around the state to cultivate more plants from it. From Kumbhalgarh ( Udaipur range) Salar plant would brought to cultivate in the nursery. From Chittorgarh Chironj and Gajrutsama from Jaiselmer would be brought to add in the species of multi plantation garden. Traversal Rajasthan Isis would be brought from Jodhpur and orojilam indicum from Banswara for the garden.
Source:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Jaipur

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