Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 23: The two-day seminar on “Ex-Servicemen Leading Herbal Farming” organized by Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM) concluded today.
Winding up the two-day seminar on “Ex-Servicemen Leading Herbal Farming” and a visit to the Chatha Farm and Herbal Garden of IIIM, Director IIIM, Dr Ram Vishwakarma assured the ex-servicemen all support in this unique programme of rehabilitation of ex-servicemen after retirement through Herbal Farming with the technical and scientific support of the IIIM under CSIR, Government of India.
He said he was happy and proud to render some assistance to the soldiers after retirement as they are the best human resource available in the country yet untapped.
He further said that after they confirm about their land availability, the IIIM team will visit them next month so that another training programme can be held in July for plantation in July-September 2014.
Dr Vishwakarma promised every help to make this pioneer programme a national venture in the time to come. He said he would provide planting material for the initial planting, training, visit to the plantations, technical support and buy back arrangements so that the ex-servicemen do not face any difficulty in their new venture.
There was a good response from the ex-servicemen from Doda, Kishtwar, Ramban and Udhampur for Lavender plantation and from Jammu and Samba areas for Phalsa and other aromatic plants.
They were shown all the plants and herbs in the Chatha Farm where they enjoyed fresh phalsa fruit and resolved to start herbal farming in their areas.
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