Haritha Mission to set up medicinal gardens

District level inauguration of the project at Kattippara today

Forest Minister A.K. Saseendran will open the medicinal garden project of Haritha Keralam Mission, being implemented at the Ayush Health and Wellness Centres across the district, on Saturday. The district level inauguration will be held at the Government Ayurveda Dispensary at Kattippara at 10 a.m.

The project involves setting up medicinal plant gardens at Health and Wellness Centres being prepared under the Ayushman Bharat project of the National Health Mission. Four government Ayurveda dispensaries (Kattippara, Vellannur, Beypore, Feroke) and two government homoeopathy dispensaries (Cheruvannur, Thuneri) in the district come under the project.

P.Prakashan, project coordinator of Haritha Keralam Mission in the district, said that the project aimed at creating more awareness among the masses on medicinal plants. A large variety of such and herbs including gooseberry, ashwagandha, kurunthotti, keezharnelli, brahmi, chittamrith, turmeric, aloevera, neem, asparagus, ginger, tulsi, avanakku, karinochi, and adalodakam would be grown on the premises of these six dispensaries, preferably on the ground, and if not, in large flower pots.