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MEDICINAL-PLANT-CONSERVATION (Corrected)
Govt is conserving endangered medicinal 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
medicinal 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 medicinal plant nursery development since 1980 and
has innovated a nursery management and strategy of 30 medicinal plant species.
He said the institute has already conserved germplasms of 221 medicinal 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 medicinal plant species in the next three years.
About the government’s commitment to the conservation of medicinal 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 medicinal plants on the premises of their
respective homesteads.
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