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MEDICAL-PLANT-CONSERVATION
Govt is conserving endangered medical plants: Shahab Uddin
SANGSAD BHABAN, June 29, 2019 (BSS) – Environment, Forest and
Climate
Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin today said the government has taken an
initiative to protect the rare and endangered medical plants in the country.
“Bangladesh Forest Research Institute (BFRI) is the lone national organisation
involved in conducting research on forestry and forest resources,” he told the
Jatiya Sangsad while responding to a starred question placed by ruling party
lawmaker Anwer Hossain Khan (Laxmipur-1).
Shahab Uddin said the BFRI has been working on medical plant nursery
development since 1980 and has innovated a nursery management and strategy
of 30 medical plant species.
He said the institute has already conserved germplasms of 221 medical plant
species, which are going to be extinct from the country, and an initiative is
underway to increase the number of germplasm conservation to 500 medical
plant species in the next three years.
About the government’s commitment to the conservation of medical plants,
the minister said while inaugurating the National Tree Plantation Campaign
and Tree Fair-2019, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged all to plant at least
one fruit-bearing and three medical plants on the premises of their respective
homesteads.
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