{"id":21664,"date":"2014-12-03T19:23:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=21664"},"modified":"2014-12-03T19:23:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T13:53:10","slug":"palode-botanical-garden-to-grow-600-types-of-medicinal-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/palode-botanical-garden-to-grow-600-types-of-medicinal-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Palode Botanical garden to grow 600 types of medicinal plants!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The saplings of various medicinal plants will be planted at the Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute at Palode in Trivandrum. The services of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) will used for implementing the project.<\/p>\n<p>About <strong>600 different types of medicinal plants<\/strong> had been identified for the garden. 100 acres of the total area of 300 acres would be used for planting saplings of medicinal plants. The project is being implemented at a cost of Rs1 crore. Out of which work for Rs30lakh will be completed now.<\/p>\n<p>Around 300 workers from nearby grama panchayats such as Chippalchira, Karimankodu, Kollarukonam, Peringamala, and Pangode will take part in the project. The workers will clear the wild shrubs and divide the area into different levels before planting the saplings.<\/p>\n<p>Planting of medicinal plants will help in the growth of the botanical garden and will provide livelihood to hundreds of people who are dependent on the Central employment guarantee scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute is dedicated to the conservation and sustainable utilization of the Tropical plant genetic resources particularly of Western Ghats of India. Currently the Institute conserves largest number of tropical plant species among the botanic gardens in Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The saplings of various medicinal plants will be planted at the Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute at Palode in Trivandrum. The services of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) will used for implementing the project. About 600 different types of medicinal plants had been identified for the garden. 100 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-21664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}