Baltistan Herbal, Medicinal and Aaromatic Plants Project
The project aims at identification of medicinal plants and their ethnobotanical use and promoting wise use of medicinal plants and their propagation on farmlands.
The project is designed to develop a programme, that will involve the local community in the conservation of biodiversity, e.g. local HMAPs, by preparing a project, that offers sustainable resource mobilization for income generating purposes and self-utilization of HMAPs.
It will mainly include the Identification of indigenous Herbs, Medical & Aromatic Plants availability & capacity for sustainable wild growth & on-farm reproduction, local knowledge about them and their utility for human consumption/application, processing and marketing, and initial analysis for beneficial and potentially harmful substances.
The flora of the area has been already identified by earlier studies and IUCN is presently active in a biodiversity project for the Northern Areas. The project?s effort will be, to compile the published
The project is designed to develop a programme, that will involve the local community in the conservation of biodiversity, e.g. local HMAPs, by preparing a project, that offers sustainable resource mobilization for income generating purposes and self-utilization of HMAPs.
It will mainly include the Identification of indigenous Herbs, Medical & Aromatic Plants availability & capacity for sustainable wild growth & on-farm reproduction, local knowledge about them and their utility for human consumption/application, processing and marketing, and initial analysis for beneficial and potentially harmful substances.
The flora of the area has been already identified by earlier studies and IUCN is presently active in a biodiversity project for the Northern Areas. The project?s effort will be, to compile the published
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Project Snapshot
Grantee:
Baltistan Health and Education Foundation
Country:
Pakistan
Area Of Work:
Biodiversity
Grant Amount:
US$ 12,030.00
Co-Financing Cash:
Co-Financing in-Kind:
US$ 9,524.00
Project Number:
PAK/96/01
Status:
Satisfactorily Completed
Project Characteristics and Results
Capacity - Building Component
NGO will document the diminishing knowledge about the use of medicinal plants and will use this information to train their own staff on the use of variuos medicinal plants for treating the patients.
Notable Community Participation
The NGO using its health facilities in Baltistan plans to record the use of medicinal plants in Northern Areas and later on plan to train their medical staff to propoagate the use of medicinal plants in these remote areas of Pakistan where medicines are not readily available.
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SGP Country office contact
Mr. Chatro Khatri
Phone:
+92-22-2108073
Fax:
+92-22-2108074
Email:
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