Lok Sabha Question No. 495 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-02-04
Subject: Promotion of Cultivation of Medicinal Plants
Ministry: AYURVEDA,YOGA & NATUROPATHY,UNANI,SIDDHA AND HOMEOPATHY (AYUSH)
Asked by: Raju Bista, C. R. Patil

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AYUSH

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO - 495 ANSWERED ON 04/02/2022

## 'PROMOTION OF CULTIVATION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS'

## 495.    SHRI RAJU BISTA: SHRI C.R. PATIL:

Will the Minister of AYUSH be pleased to state:

- (a) the  details  of  financial  assistance  provided  to  promote  cultivation  of  medicinal  plants  and herbs,  State/  UT-wise  and  district-wise  including  Gujarat.,  West  Bengal  and  Maharashtra during the last three years;
- (b) the details of quantum of medicinal plants produced and exported, State/ UT-wise including West Bengal district-wise during the said period;
- (c) the steps taken to promote the production of Ayurvedic and herbal medicines in the country, State/ UT-wise particularly in West Bengal and Gujarat; and
- (d) the  detail  of  schemes  under  which  the  Central  Government  encourages  farmers  to  cultivate medicinal plants?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF AYUSH (SHRI SARBANANDA SONOWAL)

(a) Ministry of Ayush, Government of India had implemented Centrally Sponsored Scheme of National  Ayush  Mission  (NAM)  to  promote  the  cultivation  of  medicinal  plants  in  identified clusters/zones  through  selected  State  Implementing  agencies  throughout  the  country  in  mission mode from the financial year 2015-16 to 2020-21.

The Ministry of Ayush has approved/released an amount of Rs. 6305.24 lakh (including state share)  for  cultivation  of  medicinal  plants  under  medicinal  plants  component  of  National  Ayush Mission (NAM) scheme throughout the country including Gujarat, West Bengal and Maharashtra during the last three. The state-wise and year wise detail is given at Annexure-I

(b) The quantum of medicinal plants  Exported under HS Code 1211  from  the country during the last three financial year is as follow:

(Values in US $ Million)

|   S.No. |   HS Code | Commodity                                                                                                                     |   2018-19 |   2019-20 |   2020-21 |
|---------|-----------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
|       1 |      1211 | PLNTS AND PRTS OF PLNTS INCLD SEDS AND FRUTS USD FOR PRFUMRY PHRMACY/INSCTCIDL OR SMLR PUR FRSH/DRID, CHLD/FROZ W/N CUT CRSHD |    302.52 |    283.52 |    377.63 |

(Source : https://tradestat.commerce.gov.in)

- (c) Central  Sector  Scheme  for  Ayush  Oushadhi  Gunavatta  evam  Uttpadan  Samvardhan  Yojana (AOGUSY) has been implemented for the year 2021-2026 with the following four components:
1. Strengthening  and  up-gradation  of  Ayush  Pharmacies  and  Drug  Testing  Laboratories  to achieve higher standards.
2. Pharmacovigilance of Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homeopathy (ASU&H) drugs including surveillance of misleading advertisements.
3. Strengthening  of  Central  and  State  regulatory  frameworks  including  Technical  Human Resource and Capacity Building programs for Ayush drugs.
4. Support for development of standards and accreditation/ certification of Ayush products and materials in collaboration with Quality Council of India (QCI) and other relevant scientific institutions and industrial Research and Development (R&D) centres.
5. The  scheme  intends  to  promote  and  project  quality,  acceptability  and  visibility  of  Ayush products  for  enhancing  people's  confidence  in  their  use  for  health  care  and  for  improving trade.

Besides this, the Gujarat Medicinal Plants Board, Gujarat and West Bengal State Medicinal Plants Board, West Bengal promoted production of medicinal plants by supporting subsidy to the farmers, organise training and workshops for the farmers and encourage the farmers for plantation of medicinal plants

Steps  have  been  initiated  through  Central  Council  for  Research  in  Siddha  to  promote  the production  of  Siddha  medicines  and  marketing  quality  Siddha  internal  and  external  formulation. Ministry  of  Ayush  along  with  Bureau  of  Indian  Standards  (BIS)  Quality  Control  of  India  (QCI)

provides  voluntary  certificate  schemes  for  Ayush  products  in  two  levels  namely  Ayush  Standard Mark and AYUSH Premium Mark.

Siddha Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) pharmacy at Siddha Central Research Institute (SCRI), Chennai facilitates the manufacturing of quality Siddha medicines for the research activities and health care system of peripheral institute/ units of CCRS.

(d) Ministry of Ayush, Government of India had implemented Centrally Sponsored Scheme of National  Ayush  Mission  (NAM)  to  promote  the  cultivation  of  medicinal  plants  since  2015-16  to 2020-21.  Under 'Medicinal Plants' component of the NAM Scheme, market driven cultivation of 140  prioritized  medicinal  plants  in  identified  clusters/zones  was  supported  and  implemented  in  a mission  mode  through  selected  State  Implementing  agencies  throughout  the  country  including Andhra Pradesh. As per the scheme guidelines, the support was provided for:

- (i) Cultivation of prioritized medicinal plants on farmer's land.
- (ii) Establishment  of  nurseries  with  backward  linkages  for  raising  and  supply  of  quality planting material.
- (iii) Post-harvest management with forwarding linkages.
- (iv) Primary processing, marketing infrastructure etc.

To  encourage  the  farmers  for  cultivation  of  Medicinal  Plants,  the  Ministry  of  Ayush  has provided subsidy @30%, 50% and 75% of cultivation cost of prioritized plant species throughout the country.

Presently,  National  Medicinal  Plants  Board,  Ministry  of  Ayush  under  its  central  sector scheme supports  various  institutes/  organizations  to  organize  awareness  program,  exposure  visits, education and capacity building of stakeholders in project mode in different states in the country. During last three years, a total 8 projects for an amount of Rs. 78.92 lakhs to support IEC activities (1 Training, 3 Seminars, 1 Workshop, 2 Publication and 1 Conference) in Gujarat, West Bengal and Maharashtra.  The National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), Ministry of Ayush has established 7 Regional Cum Facilitation Centres in different geographical regions of the country. Through these Regional Cum Facilitation Centres, the financial and technical  assistance is provided to  farmers  / other  stakeholders  for  development  of  Quality  Planting  Material  (QPM)  of  medicinal  plants  and herbs of Region/State specific needs including Gujarat, West Bengal and Maharashtra.

Annexure-I Details of fund approved/released for cultivation of medicinal plants under National AYUSH

## Mission scheme from the financial year 2018-19 to 2020-21

(Rs. in lakh)

| S.No   | State             |   2018-19 |   2019-20 |   2020-21 |    Total |
|--------|-------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|----------|
| 1      | Andhra Pradesh    |    69.279 |   220.408 |     0     |  289.687 |
| 2      | Arunachal Pradesh |     9.36  |    26.255 |    59.5   |   95.115 |
| 3      | Assam             |    28.122 |     0     |     0     |   28.122 |
| 4      | Bihar             |     0     |    74.487 |     0     |   74.487 |
| 5      | Chhattisgarh      |    28.107 |     0     |     0     |   28.107 |
| 6      | Goa               |     9.437 |     9.742 |     0     |   19.179 |
| 7      | Gujarat           |   178.67  |     0     |     0     |  178.67  |
| 8      | Haryana           |     0     |     0     |     0     |    0     |
| 9      | Himachal Pradesh  |     0     |    54.444 |     0     |   54.444 |
| 10     | Jammu &Kashmir    |    21.504 |    18.288 |    21.539 |   61.331 |
| 11     | Karnataka         |    86.485 |   114.673 |   359.881 |  561.039 |
| 12     | Kerala            |   115.265 |     0     |   101.112 |  216.377 |
| 13     | Madhya Pradesh    |   249.359 |   287.873 |   853.736 | 1390.97  |
| 14     | Maharashtra       |     0     |   285.356 |     0     |  285.356 |
| 15     | Manipur           |    17.58  |    15.829 |     0     |   33.409 |
| 16     | Meghalaya         |     0     |    31.526 |     0     |   31.526 |
| 17     | Mizoram           |    39.64  |     0.954 |    10.304 |   50.898 |
| 18     | Nagaland          |    38.042 |     0     |    75.482 |  113.524 |
| 19     | Orissa            |    85.064 |     0     |     0     |   85.064 |
| 20     | Puducherry        |     0.393 |     0.783 |     0     |    1.176 |
| 21     | Punjab            |     9.469 |    66.154 |     0     |   75.623 |
| 22     | Rajasthan         |   203.239 |   327.848 |     0     |  531.087 |
| 23     | Sikkim            |     0     |     0     |    40.989 |   40.989 |
| 24     | Tamil Nadu        |   173.089 |   260.995 |     0     |  434.084 |
| 25     | Telangana         |    36.874 |    65.748 |     0     |  102.622 |
| 26     | Tripura           |    42.897 |     0     |     0     |   42.897 |
| 27     | Uttarakhand       |    55.667 |   133.595 |     0     |  189.262 |
| 28     | Uttar Pradesh     |   564.051 |     0     |   503.012 | 1067.06  |
| 29     | West Bengal       |    62.201 |   160.933 |     0     |  223.134 |
|        | TOTAL             |  2123.79  |  2155.89  |  2025.56  | 6305.24  |