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When Dr. Rajaram Tripathi decided to leave the bank job and cultivate medicinal plants in Chhattisgarh 25 years ago, he did not even guess that he would get so much success in this area. Today Dr. Rajaram Trip …Read more
Dr. Rajaram Tripathi (Twitter/@RajaramTripath7)
Today, even though farmers across the country remain in continuous losses due to the rising cost of farming and the falling prices of crops, but there is no possibility of loss in farming being done by Dr. Rajaram Tripathi out of the box. Rather, the benefit in it is constantly increasing. The biggest thing is that only natural resources are used in the methods of cultivation of Dr. Rajaram Tripathi. Due to which no pollution is spread in the earth, air and water and the quality of crops remains intact. Dr. Rajaram Tripathi has also been honored for this. The Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India has also made him a member of the Medicinal Plants Board.
Dr. Rajaram Tripathi not only cultivates herbal plants himself but has also added other farmers in many areas of Chhattisgarh to cultivate herbs and spices with them. By joining them, farmers are cultivating herbal plants and spices on more than a thousand acres of land in Chhattisgarh today. Dr. Rajaram Tripathi has also formed an institution to protect farmers from the trap of traders, named the Central Herbal Agro Marketing Federation. About 22000 farmers across the country are connected to this institution and they sell their crops through it. The number of foreign buyers on their website is very high. Dr. Rajaram Tripathi has also worked to train hundreds of farmers for the cultivation of herbal plants and spices.
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Dr. Rajaram Tripathi is very disappointed that the way the cultivation of herbal and spices should be developed in the country, it is not being done. There is a market of organic farming of about 60 trillion dollars in the whole world. In which India is very low, while there are many possibilities in India. The more biodiversity with India, the more countries of the world have. Still India is far behind in this direction. While many countries with limited biodiversity are far ahead in the export of medicinal plants from India.
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Dr. Rajaram Tripathi believes that the farmer here can easily complete the raw materials that Ayurvedic medicine needs in the country. This will reduce the pressure of Ayurvedic pharmaceutical companies on the forests and will also protect forests. It is necessary for herbs to protect the forests from tribes and other people living in the forests, because they harm forests.
Dr. Rajaram Tripathi says that he has been cultivating medicinal plants and spices and said that it has been almost 25 years. Now their talk is being taken seriously among the farmers. Doctors Tripathi are cultivating black rice along with black pepper, stevia as well. Dr. Tripathi also believes that farmers should leave the confidence of the government and find a new market for their crops and do new experiments. Regarding the market of medicinal plant, Dr. Tripathi believes that even big companies are also dependent on the yield of forests. But this method is not going to last long, because it is increasing pressure on forests. Therefore, cultivation of medicinal plants is the way from which water, forest and land can be protected and farmers can also be protected.
March 11, 2022, 10:48 IST