Jorhat: CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology (Neis) has chosen fifteen fields of experimental research in northeast India for planting rare and endangered drug plants.
Of the total, five in Assam, four in Arunachal Pradesh, and each one in Manipur, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim and Tripura.
In the press communike issued here on Friday, Director of CSIR-Neist G Narahari Sastry said they had chosen the field of research and work.
He said the Institute was currently working for identification, domestication and planting the species of rare and endangered drug plants.
“This is a project to maintain the modern pharmaceutical industry and for strong traditional Indian medicine system sustenance,” he said.
The important factor of this plan includes the breeding of new plant varieties, stable performance identification through multilocation trials, the integration of modern science along with the potential for market and industrial applications.