Key deliverables:

1. Scientific Validation of 2 or 3 Ethno- Veterinary Medicinal Plants           
2. High Value Medicinal Plant Nurseries (both at station and the field) of selected 10 species.
3. Cultivated Farms of high value medicinal plants (8-10 spp) of primary health care and ethno- veterinary value seen in Western Ghats in farmers’/SHGs’ land.
4. Trained men and women/SHGs in Herbal health care
5. Commercialization of 3-5 raw/semi processed herbs
6. Medicinal Plant Training Manuals (printed as well as in digital form) on location specific package  of MPs for common ailments

Highlights from Core area 2:

Ethno Medicinal & Veterinary Plant InitiativeThis initiative is aimed at promoting primary health care traditions through conservation and sustainable use of a set of common medicinal plants and to promote the preparation and sale of herbal formulations of nutritive and cosmetic values thereby contributing to the improved livelihoods of especially the women belonging to marginalized sections.

1. A baseline study on socio economic status and home    based healthcare practices of 400 HHs.
2. Two hundred home herbal gardens with 10 species of  medicinal plants.
3. A Tissue Culture lab for undertaking micro propagation  of high value medicinal plants
4. Phyto-chemical profiling of nine medicinal plant  species in collaboration with CSIR-NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram and validation of a three ethno veterinary claims in collaboration with Kerala   Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Pookode,  Wayanad.
5. A storehouse for semi-processed herbs and a semi-processing unit for medicinal plants at the Centre.
6. A Nodal medicinal plant Nursery at the Centre with regular seedlings production of 125 species of  medicinal plants; an average production of 60,000  seedlings per year.
7. A database of 212 Ethno veterinary practices.
8. A database on the availability of 36 raw drugs  (Non Timber Forest Products).
9. Forty-six trainings, 3 topics (11‘herb based’ primary       healthcare products; Ethno-veterinary medicine   preparation; home herbal gardening); 1123 participants (188 Men+ 935 Women). 

Potential Enterprising Activity Identified and Promoted

• Field level medicinal plants nursery to cater the growing demand of propagules with an average production of 5,000 seedlings per year.