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Cultivation of medicinal plants and orchids in Sikkim Himalaya/ edited by R.C. Sundriyal and Eklabya Sharma - Dehra Dun: B.S.M. Pal Singh, 1995. - 139 p. - "Himavikas occasional publication no. 7" .

Message
Preface
Keynote address

Orchids
Orchid wealth: a national heritage industry prospects vis-a-vis R&D needs
Scope of commercial orchid growing in Sikkim and Darjeeling hills
Some experiences with orchid cultivation in Sikkim: a report
Potential of orchid growing and marketing in Arunachal Pradesh
Scope of orchid growing and marketing in tropical India

Medicinal plants
Status of medicinal plants and their cultivation potential in Sikkim
Agro-techniques of some high altitude medicinal herbs
Use of medicinal plants of Sikkim in Ayurvedic medicine
Conditions for replanting and conserving high valued Tibetan medicinal herbs
Tibetan medicinal plants : an agenda for cultivation
Approach to project design on medicinal and aromatic plants

Farmer's perspective
Orchid growing experiences : a farmer's view
Some experiences with orchid cultivation
Orchid cooperative societies : an insider's view
Tibetan medicine : a practitioner's view

Recommendations and discussion
Orchids
Medicinal plants
Marketing
Discusssion
Programme
List of participants


ISBN: 8121101220

Dewey Class. No.: 581.63409542 / SUN/C