medicinal herbs

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Patayat Sahu’s tale of plants, potions and Padma Shri

Country recognises 65-year-old villager of Nandol in Odisha for curating a garden with 3000 varieties of medicinal plants that help to cure many ailments.

her life

Medicinal herbs can form a base for rural enterprises

There is a potentially large livelihoods and enterprise potential in the medicinal herbs sector, which is sadly neglected by grassroots development professionals and ignored by the government despite an acute shortage of modern healthcare services in rural India