Jaipur: The Guggalized Factory is known for its medicinal properties recently listed on the list of endangered species from the International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN).
Plants, which quickly disappeared from the country, have seen a severe decline of 56 percent of land in the last 20 years.
Most are cultivated in arid and semi-dry areas, the plants were once found abundantly at the foot of Aravalli in Rajasthan and Gujarat.
However, the steep decrease has been observed in its growth due to increased urbanization, mining, termite infestations, in-depth cuts and decreases due to excessive exploitation by local and medical companies.
At present, it was found only in 10 state districts including Nagaur, Ajmer and Jodhpur.
Suresh Kumar, former Head of Integrated Land Use Management and Agricultural System at the Jodhpur-based Zone Zone Research Institute, said that “the medicinal plant has been under threat over the past two decades.
The use of gums that are not indiscriminate from the factory for that drug use , especially for the heart and BP, in a non-sustainable and unsustainable way it has resulted in loss.
“Gugal growth is very slow, and it takes 7-10 years to achieve full growth.
It can’t grow anywhere besides the foot of the hill where water is not durable.
IUCN has been worried about the last 10 years.
In 2010, the body had included it into the ‘less data category’ forced the state government to start steps to restore medicinal plants but the effort seems to have failed.
Sakeena Gul, a research scholar at the Forest Research Institute in Dehradun in a recent study claimed that the biggest single reason for the disappearance of a non-scientific plant was an unscientific way to extract resin, which was not regulated.
“I observed that to improve the gum yield, the shepherd had internal cuts on the stem and then applying horse urine paste mixed with toxic chemicals around the incision.
However, a non-scientific process damages the vascular bundle of plants, reducing the flow of water, which in turn leads to In the death of plants in one or two months, “said Gul.
After his interview with farmers and shepherd, who collected Gugal gum, Gul concluded that many of them had begun to use trees as firewood.
“The use of moderate plants provides gums several times but with deep cuts, it only provides a gum once and dies.
Followed by its use in firewood, there is no chance to use it,” said Gul.
Guggal is now a global endangered species
