The Biobrio 11(1 & 2), 2024

Nursery techniques and management of medicinal plants

Julie Lakra & Shambhu Mishra

ABSTRACT:

The present study is based on nursery management and nursery techniques for medicinal plants. There are many plant species that are medicinally important for daily life and for the economy, and medicinal professionals demand these plants. The cultivation of such plants will be useful in meeting the requirements of several medicines. Medicinal plants can be considered to include all plant materials such as foliage, root, flower, fruit, and seed, which may be used as such or in the form of their extracts and chemical compounds isolated from them to produce drugs for human and veterinary medicine. The propagation techniques will help the people to raise them in private nurseries and adopt their cultivation on a large scale. The aim of good nursery management is to ensure the availability of planting material of the highest possible quality for new development areas and replanting, thereby reassuring the audience about the quality of the plants. Management of the nursery includes various activities like seed collection, seed treatment, potting the seedlings, manuring, irrigation, plant protection measures, weed control, management of mother plants, staff training for the use of pesticides, plant protection and general safety issues regarding nursery management. Planting of nursery-raised seedlings is a major component of forestation and reforestation programs. Nurseries can be permanent (also known as central or main nursery) or temporary (also known as site nursery or field nursery). Seedlings were grown in root trainers, seed beds, and plastic bags filled with either soil, soil with fertilizer, or compost substrates. After transplanting in the field, treatments with and without fertilizer and herbicide were applied to all nurseries. This paper examines various propagation methods, techniques and nursery management practices in medicinal plants. 

 

Keywords:    

Seed collection, economical demand, management practices, propagation method. a forestation

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