UTILIZATION AND CONSERVATION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS OFSERICULTURAL GARDENS

摘要

Sericulture is facing tough time in Uttarakhand due to bivoltine crops, limited land resources and competition with other crops. Therefore farmers are not earning much from sericulture. Medicinal plants grow as undesirable vegetation in various barrenand cultivated lands viz. agricultural farms, fruit orchards, sericultural gardens, vegetable gardens or else also as wild plants in the forests. In current scenario, due to growing awareness about the health hazards from allopathic medicines, the importance of medicinal plants has increased manifold among the general mass. Therefore, natural harmony between sericulture and medicinal industries for sustainable co-existence should be developed. Present communication deals with nearly 48 species of medicinal plants growing in mulberry garden of Regional Sericultural Research Station, Dehra Dun. All the 48 species have been described along with botanical name, local name, family, habit, economic importance and strategies fortheir utilization and conservations.