Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki on Wednesday pitched for harnessing the abundant medicinal and aromatic plants in the state for enhancing revenue generation.
“With a forest cover of 82 per cent we are blessed with approximately 500 species of medicinal and aromatic plants, if correctively harnessed would fetch handsome revenue for the state,” Tuki asserted after inaugurating the newly constructed Arunachal Pradesh State Medicinal Plant Board building at Chimpu near here.
While revealing that the indigenous populace especially living in the rural areas has better knowledge about the traditional medicines, Tuki opined the forest officials to conduct extensive research to identify the medicinal and aromatic plants apart from already identified species.
On sharing his past experiences of attending various conferences on medicinal and aromatic plants at Hyderabad and even at Kathmandu (Nepal), the chief minister disclosed that with the available resources of the state, Arunachal Pradesh is capable of becoming a leading exporter of medicinal and aromatic plants in the country.
“Instead of digging the graves, we should ensure safeguarding the living creatures,” Tuki pointed while referring to a recent news on illegal hunting and selling of meat in the open market.
He urged the forest officials to work with renewed energy giving full justice to their assigned work so that the wild life and forest crimes could be completely contained. (PTI)