ITANAGAR, Dec 18: Arunachal Pradesh State Medicinal Plant Board (APSMPB) Chairman BC Tok  appealed to all stakeholders to extend support and shoulder collective responsibility for promotion of medicinal plant conservation, protection and cultivation.
Addressing the 9th governing body meeting of the APSMPB here today, Tok said that though the Board is facing acute financial scarcity for smooth functioning of all its activities in regard to promotion, cultivation, conservation and protection of several medicinal plants, it can be overcome if all stakeholders put up collective responsibility and support the Board for successful implementation of schemes.
“There are several herbs and plants which have great medicinal value which are lying abandoned in nature and forests in the state. Few medicinal plants are on the verge of extinction due to black-marketing and smuggling which need to be stopped. If we make a regulation and arrange minimum support price after thoroughly verifying cost in cultivation, marketing and exporting up to factory or manufacturing units, it will not only uplift the village folk but also benefit the state economically,” Tok said.
APSMPB CEO T Gapak read out the agenda and welcomed the guests and highlighted the activities of the Board since 2001. Director, SJETA, Yumlam Kaha, Director Audit & Pension A Basit, Additional PCCF N Tam, Joint Director (Health) Tage Tatung, Jt. RCS RD Thungon and other members also suggested several ways and means.
Other members of the governing body,  SFRI   scientist RK Taj, CCRAL, North East Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital Professor Dr. G Phaomi, Dy. Director AYUSH Dr. Dusu Laji, BSI Scientist Dr. U Tiwari, NEIST Itanagar Branch officer Dr. C Tamuly, Dr. T Drema, D. Yongam, R Perme among others also shared their views.

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