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Ayurveda Go To Index Page Herbal farming taking the place of traditional crops in UP Maharajganj (Gorakhpur) With people in the country becoming more conscious about organic products and falling prices of traditional crops like sugarcane, wheat and rice, herbal farming has got a big boost in eastern parts of Uttar Pradesh. More and more companies, especially in health care, are launching new herbal products to tap the surging demand for organic products. To keep up with the new-found demand, farmers in Maharajganj district have given up sugarcane farming for profitable herbal farming. Farmers here now grow herbal plants like Lemon Grass, Pamaroza, Scentroza, Aswagandha and White Musali. "When
we used to grow sugarcane, we used to have one crop in two years and
for that also we never used to get any money. While in herbal plants
we can have three crops in a year and get good money also," said Ram
Aasre Kushvaha, a farmer. With increasing demand of herbal plants, agriculture
experts are also advising farmers to grow herbal plants. "A farmer does
not get good value for traditional crops like sugarcane, wheat and rice.
On the other hand if they grow herbal crops they get 10 to 20 times
profit. Therefore I advise farmers to go for herbal cultivation," said,
Sanjay Tripathi, Agriculture expert. Herbal products have a Rs 2500
crore world market with an annual growth of five percent.
Ayurvedic fair in Bhopal Bhopal: Bhopal is hosting an Ayurveic fair to cash in on the demand for organic medicines. Along with the display of a variety of herbal medicines, traditional the traditional practitioners explained the system to hundreds who thronged the fair. Prem Narayan Sharma, a traditional Ayurvedic practitioner, said most of the patients were scared of modern medicines. "Patients suffering from breathing disorder, piles, skin diseases come to me. There are patients who are scared of taking allopathic medicine. They benefit from ayurvedic medicine," Sharma said. The visitors hailed the idea of holding such a fair. "I have problems of joint pain and breathing disorder. I have been taking allopathic medicines since the last 20 years. I was not cured completely. Then I was told to take Ayurvedic medicines. There are no side-effects whereas there are side-effects in Allopathy," Shalu Jain, a patient, who visited the fair, said.
Ayureda offers a holistic method to cure the root cause of the diseases
rather than the symptoms. The country exports Ayurvedic drugs worth
5.5 billion rupees a year and has set an export target of 1.08 billion
dollars by 2008. Analysts say the country could increase its market
share, growing by about seven percent a year, as it has more than 15,000
plant species.
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