Medicinal plants to be cultivated on 75000 hectares of land

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In news– Recently, the National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), Ministry of AYUSH has launched a national campaign to promote cultivation of medicinal plants in the country as part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.

About the cultivation campaign of medicinal plants-

• Under this campaign, cultivation of medicinal plants will be done on 75,000 hectares of land in the next one year across the country. 
• The program has been started from Saharanpur in UP and Pune in Maharashtra.
• The campaign will ensure the availability of medicines and will be a source of steady income for the farmers. 
• The activities of the campaign will be implemented through the NMPB.
• All state medicinal plant boards will be on board to achieve the target.

Other initiatives of Ministry of AYUSH as part of  Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav-

Further programs being held under ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ include

Y-Break mobile app-

• It is a five-minute Yoga protocol, especially designed for working professionals to de-stress, refresh and refocus at their workplace to increase their productivity. 
• It has been developed by MDNIY (Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga). 
• Through this app, yoga and meditation can be done anywhere in just 5 minutes.
• This module was launched in January, 2020 as a pilot project basis in six major Metro cities in coordination with different stake-holders.  

AyushAapkeDwar programme

• Under the ‘AyushAapkeDwar’ programme, saplings will be distributed to households to promote the concept of growing medicinal plants in the kitchen garden. 
• It will help households to use the medicines from their gardens for common illnesses.

Prophylactic Ayush Drugs

• The Ministry of Ayush has launched a campaign of distributing Ayush prophylactic medicines and written guidelines on diet and lifestyle.
• In the next one year, the immunity booster medicines and the guidelines to combat Covid-19 will be distributed to 75 lakh people across the country, with special focus on geriatric (people of 60 years and above age) population and the front line workers.
• The kit of Ayurveda prophylactic medicines for Covid-19 contains Sanshamani Vati, which is also known as Guduchi or Giloy Ghan Vati and Ashwagandha Ghan Vati. 

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