An Online workshop “Entrepreneurship in Herbal Products”

 PG Department of Botany organized One Day National Workshop on “Entrepreneurship in Herbal Products” under DD Pant Botanical Society. Principal Prof. Dr. (Mrs.) Ajay Sareen stressed upon the need of getting the knowledge about herbal products, their production and empowering the women by setting up small set ups by utilizing the knowledge based on these herbal products. During COVID-19 people are looking on ayurveda for boosting immunity which is based on this traditional knowledge of plants & plant based products. She congratulated the department for organizing such a successful event.

The Resource Person Dr. Anjana Bhatia, innovation ambassador discussed about the role of basic plant sciences for being successful entrepreneur of herbal products. Demand for plants based cosmetics, medicines & other health care products have been increasing exponentially as they are non-toxic, have less side effects and easily available at affordable prices. India is one of the top 12 mega biodiversity centres of world which supplies major raw material of herbal products all over the world. So by having knowledge about plants you can be a successful entrepreneur as well as organic producer of such herbal products.

More than 700 students’ teachers, researchers from various institutes registered for the workshop. Dr. Nitika Kapoor gave vote of thanks. Dr. Shaveta, Mrs. Ramandeep, Ms. Harpreet Kaur & Dr. Shuchi from Botany Department were also present.