Abstract

A REVIEW ON CONVENTIONAL CULTIVATION AND PROPAGATION OF SOME OF THE THREATENED AND ENDANGERED WILD MEDICINAL PLANTS HAVING COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE

Dr. Nalinikant Parida*, Dr. Lilabati Mishra, Dr. C. P. Sinha, Dr. AK Sahu, Dr. L. D. Sahu and Dr. (Prof) S. Mishra

Abstract

Medicinal plants throughout the world are becoming increasingly rare, due to an ongoing destruction of natural habitat, over-harvesting of wild species and detrimental changes to the climate and environment. Thus Large numbers of endangered plant species are preserved in private collections and also many project works are taken by the government of India to conserve and preserve such threatened and endangered medicinal plant species. Every year the maintainers of such collections spend a considerable amount of time, effort and money to preserve the status of their collections. Thus an effort is made here to show the cultivation procedure of different kinds of endangered species which can be cultivated in a commercial basis for the industrial utilization and at the same time their destruction from the wild sources can be prevented in an extensive manner for conservation purpose.

Keywords: Over-harvesting, endangered, cultivation, conservation.