Lok Sabha Question No. 371 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-02-03
Subject: Medicinal Plants Products
Ministry: AYURVEDA,YOGA & NATUROPATHY,UNANI,SIDDHA AND HOMEOPATHY (AYUSH)
Asked by: Chandra Sekhar Bellana

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AYUSH

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 371 TO BE ANSWERED ON 03/02/2023

## MEDICINAL PLANTS PRODUCTS

## 371. SHRI CHANDRA SEKHAR BELLANA:

Will the Minister of AYUSH be pleased to state:

- a) whether the Government has taken any steps to establish primary processing centres and marketing infrastructure for medicinal plants;
- b) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor;
- c) whether the Government has taken any initiatives to promote medicinal plants products on both national and global level; and
- d) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF AYUSH (SHRI SARBANANDA SONOWAL)

(a) & (b) Yes, Ministry  of  Ayush,  Government  of  India  had  implemented  the  Centrally Sponsored Scheme of the National Ayush Mission (NAM) from the financial year 2015-16 to 202021 to support establishment of Processing Units and Marketing Infrastructure for medicinal plants throughout the country.

Till  date,  Ministry  of  Ayush  has  supported  25  nos.  of  Processing  Units  and  42  nos.  of Marketing Infrastructure of medicinal plants under National Ayush Mission Scheme throughout the country  from  the  financial  year  2015-16  to  2020-21.  Detail  of  Processing  Units  and  Marketing Infrastructure of medicinal plants is given at Annexure - I & II.

(c) & (d) Yes,  National  Medicinal  plants  Board,  Ministry  of  Ayush,  Government  of  India  is implementing Central Sector Scheme on 'Conservation, Development and Sustainable Management of Medicinal Plants' wherein following activities are supported:

- (i) In-situ conservation / Ex-situ conservation
- (ii) Livelihood linkages with Joint Forest Management Committees (JFMCs) / Panchayats / Van Panchayats / Biodiversity Management Committees (BMCs) / Self Help Groups (SHGs).
- (iii) IEC activities like Training / workshops / Seminars/ Conferences etc.
- (iv) Research & Development.

- (v) Promotion, marketing and trade of medicinal plants produce.

National Medicinal Plant Board, Ministry of Ayush supports various institutes/organization to organise  awareness  building  program,  Exposure  Visits,  Education  and  Capacity  Building  of Stakeholders through Information, Education and Communication (IEC) strategy under Central Sector Scheme (CSS) for conservation, development and sustainable management of medicinal plants.

Till date, NMPB has supported total 117 projects to various organization/institutes during the last  five  years  through  IEC  strategy  under  Central  Sector Scheme  guideline of  NMPB.  Year-wise details of supported projects from 2018-19 to 2022-23 are mentioned below:

| S.No.   | Financial Year   |   Total number of projects sanctioned |
|---------|------------------|---------------------------------------|
| 1       | 2018-19          |                                    41 |
| 2       | 2019-20          |                                    20 |
| 3       | 2020-21          |                                    15 |
| 4       | 2021-22          |                                    26 |
| 5       | 2022-23          |                                    15 |
| Total   | Total            |                                   117 |

Beside this, Ministry of Ayush had supported 235 number of training programmes, seminars/ workshops / Buyer-seller meet / exposure visits on cultivation practices to aware the farmers under flexi component of 'Medicinal Plants' component under National Ayush Mission scheme. The detail of activities supported under flexi component is given at Annexure - III .

Besides  this,  initiatives  taken  by  APEDA  to  promote  its  scheduled  products  including medicinal plants products on global level is given below:

## 1.

- Development of Common Infrastructure for agri exports:

APEDA provided financial assistance for setting up of common infrastructure facilities such as pack-houses, processing units, reefer van etc. in various States across the country.

2. Collaboration with Missions/ Embassies: APEDA has been regularly interacting with the Indian Missions abroad which enabled to tap the opportunities in the importing country's requirements arising on account of the COVID pandemic.
- a. Virtual Trade Fairs (VTFs) - To overcome the adverse impact of COVID-19 and to sustain the existing markets, APEDA took the pioneer step and introduced its own platform through in-house  team  for  organizing  Virtual  Trade  Fairs  to  establish  contact  between  Indian exporters and importers.
- b. Virtual Buyer Seller Meets To leverage on the opportunity due to COVD 19 situation, APEDA organized virtual buyer seller meets in association with Indian Missions abroad promoting exports of APEDA mandated products.

## 3. Packaging Development:

Besides  providing  financial  assistance  to  its  member  exporters  under  its  Market  Development Scheme for using international standards of packaging, APEDA in association with Indian Institute

of  Packaging  has  developed  packaging  standards  and  specifications  for  potential  flowers  and floriculture product.

4. Quality  development programmes: In  order  to  attain  quality  of  the  produce  to  be  exported, APEDA has recognized 128 Labs (dynamic list) across India to provide services of testing to wide range of products.
5. Organization  of  promotion  programme: To  promote  Medicinal  and  Herbal  Plants  in International market, promotional programmes are organized in potential countries in association with respective Embassies.
6. Constitution of Export Promotion Forums: For more focused approach and to ensure greater participation and role of exporters in export promotion and bring focus on the issues/challenges /bottlenecks faced in production and export, Export Promotion Forums have been constituted for floriculture, seeds and plants including Herbal and medicinal plants for strengthening the supply chain and for making a strategy for promoting export.

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Annexure-I Details  of  processing  unit  supported  under  medicinal  plants  component  of  National  Ayush Mission Scheme from the financial year 2015-16 to 2020-21.

| S. No.   | State Name        |   2015-16 |   2016-17 |   2017-18 |   2018-19 |   2019-20 |   2020-21 |   Total |
|----------|-------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|---------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh    |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 3        | Assam             |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 4        | Bihar             |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         7 |         0 |       7 |
| 5        | Chhattisgarh      |         0 |         0 |         1 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       1 |
| 6        | Goa               |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 7        | Gujarat           |         1 |         2 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       3 |
| 8        | Haryana           |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 9        | Himachal Pradesh  |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 10       | Jammu &Kashmir    |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         2 |         2 |       4 |
| 11       | Karnataka         |         0 |         0 |         1 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       1 |
| 12       | Kerala            |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 13       | Madhya Pradesh    |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 14       | Maharashtra       |         0 |         0 |         1 |         0 |         1 |         0 |       2 |
| 15       | Manipur           |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 16       | Meghalaya         |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 17       | Mizoram           |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         1 |         0 |       1 |
| 18       | Nagaland          |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 19       | Orissa            |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 20       | Puducherry        |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 21       | Punjab            |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 22       | Rajasthan         |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         4 |         0 |       4 |
| 23       | Sikkim            |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 24       | Tamil Nadu        |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 25       | Telangana         |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 26       | Tripura           |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 27       | Uttarakhand       |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 28       | Uttar Pradesh     |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 29       | West Bengal       |         0 |         0 |         0 |         1 |         1 |         0 |       2 |
|          | TOTAL             |         1 |         2 |         3 |         1 |        16 |         2 |      25 |

Note:

As per information received from the concerned State Implementing Agencies.

Marketing infrastructure viz. Rural Collection Centre (RCC)/ District Collection Centre (DCC)/ Retail outlet supported under medicinal plants component of National Ayush Mission Scheme from the financial year 2015-16 to 2020-21.

| S. No.   | State Name        |   2015-16 |   2016-17 |   2017-18 |   2018-19 |   2019-20 |   2020-21 |   Total |
|----------|-------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|---------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh    |         0 |         1 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       1 |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 3        | Assam             |         0 |         0 |         1 |         4 |         0 |         0 |       5 |
| 4        | Bihar             |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 5        | Chhattisgarh      |         0 |         1 |         1 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       2 |
| 6        | Goa               |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 7        | Gujarat           |         0 |         0 |         1 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       1 |
| 8        | Haryana           |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 9        | Himachal Pradesh  |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 10       | Jammu &Kashmir    |         0 |         0 |         1 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       1 |
| 11       | Karnataka         |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 12       | Kerala            |         0 |         0 |         0 |         2 |         0 |         3 |       5 |
| 13       | Madhya Pradesh    |         0 |         0 |         0 |         1 |         0 |         0 |       1 |
| 14       | Maharashtra       |         0 |         0 |         1 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       1 |
| 15       | Manipur           |         0 |         0 |         1 |         1 |         0 |         0 |       2 |
| 16       | Meghalaya         |         0 |         1 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       1 |
| 17       | Mizoram           |         0 |         0 |         1 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       1 |
| 18       | Nagaland          |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 19       | Orissa            |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 20       | Puducherry        |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 21       | Punjab            |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 22       | Rajasthan         |         0 |         1 |         2 |         1 |         2 |         0 |       6 |
| 23       | Sikkim            |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 24       | Tamil Nadu        |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 25       | Telangana         |         0 |         6 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       6 |
| 26       | Tripura           |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 27       | Uttarakhand       |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 28       | Uttar Pradesh     |         0 |         0 |         0 |         8 |         0 |         0 |       8 |
| 29       | West Bengal       |         0 |         1 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       1 |
|          | TOTAL             |         0 |        11 |         9 |        17 |         2 |         3 |      42 |

Note:

As per information received from the concerned State Implementing Agencies.

State-wise detail of IEC activities (seminars/ workshops / Buyer-seller meet / Exposure visits) supported under Medicinal Plants Component of 'National Ayush Mission' (NAM) Scheme, Ministry of Ayush from the financial year 2016-17 to 2020-21.

| S.No.   | State             |   2016-17 |   2017-18 |   2018-19 |   2019-20 |   2020-21 |   Total |
|---------|-------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|---------|
| 1       | Andhra Pradesh    |         2 |         1 |         4 |         5 |         0 |      12 |
| 2       | Arunachal Pradesh |         0 |         0 |         1 |         0 |         0 |       1 |
| 3       | Assam             |         1 |         1 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       2 |
| 4       | Bihar             |         0 |         0 |         0 |         3 |         0 |       3 |
| 5       | Chhattisgarh      |         1 |         1 |         4 |         0 |         0 |       6 |
| 6       | Goa               |         0 |         0 |         0 |         1 |         0 |       1 |
| 7       | Gujarat           |         0 |         3 |         6 |         0 |         0 |       9 |
| 8       | Haryana           |         6 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       6 |
| 9       | Himachal Pradesh  |         0 |         0 |         0 |         3 |         0 |       3 |
| 10      | Jammu &Kashmir    |         0 |         0 |         1 |         2 |         1 |       4 |
| 11      | Karnataka         |         0 |         3 |         1 |         8 |         2 |      14 |
| 12      | Kerala            |         3 |         2 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       5 |
| 13      | Madhya Pradesh    |         3 |        13 |        24 |        12 |        12 |      64 |
| 14      | Maharashtra       |         0 |         2 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       2 |
| 15      | Manipur           |         0 |         1 |         2 |         0 |         0 |       3 |
| 16      | Meghalaya         |         0 |         3 |         0 |         1 |         0 |       4 |
| 17      | Mizoram           |         0 |         1 |         5 |         2 |         2 |      10 |
| 18      | Nagaland          |         1 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       1 |
| 19      | Orissa            |         0 |         0 |         3 |         0 |         0 |       3 |
| 20      | Puducherry        |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 21      | Punjab            |         2 |         0 |         3 |         5 |         0 |      10 |
| 22      | Rajasthan         |         1 |         6 |         7 |         4 |         0 |      18 |
| 23      | Sikkim            |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         1 |       1 |
| 24      | Tamil Nadu        |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 25      | Telangana         |         4 |         2 |         2 |         4 |         0 |      12 |
| 26      | Tripura           |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |         0 |       0 |
| 27      | Uttarakhand       |         1 |         1 |         0 |         1 |         0 |       3 |
| 28      | Uttar Pradesh     |         0 |         1 |        17 |         0 |        14 |      32 |
| 29      | West Bengal       |         0 |         2 |         2 |         2 |         0 |       6 |
| Total   | Total             |        25 |        43 |        82 |        53 |        32 |     235 |

Note:

As per information received from the concerned State Implementing Agencies.