Regional-cum-Facilitation Centre (RCFC), National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), Jadavpur University has been established as one of the seven such Centres in different regions (East, West, North-I, North-II, South, Central and North East) of the country under the Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India during 2017-18. This RCFC, NMPB for Eastern Region will act as one stop center for the growers, cultivators, researchers, traders and other stakeholders of medicinal plants. The centre caters the state of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal and would function in close co-ordination with State Medicinal Plants Board (SMPBs), the State implementing agency of the medicinal plants component of the AYUSH Mission. The RCFC, NMPB is to provide a service window for growers of medicinal plants for supporting conservation, development, marketing, cultivation and provide handholding support to stakeholders in terms of technology dissemination and also for establishing primary processing facilities etc. besides undertaking identified research relevant to the area concerned as and when assigned.

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The major functions of the RCFC, NMPB are:

    • ♦To act as multifaceted facilitating arm of NMPB
    • ♦Development of Quality Planting Materials (QPM)
    • ♦Development of Agrotechnology of medicinal plants
    • ♦Setting up of primary processing, grading, marketing facilities
    • ♦To develop managerial and technical skill among the stakeholders
    • ♦Facilitation of sale of medicinal plants and produces
    • ♦To provide inputs on conservation, sustainable cultivation, technology upgradation, training & research
    • ♦Domestication of wild species in demand
    • ♦To function as a platform for bringing together the different stakeholders
    • ♦To organize periodical meetings, workshops, consultation of stakeholders
    • ♦To review of the projects sanctioned by NMPB to various organizations
    • ♦To collect and maintain database of all concerned Sectors of the Medicinal Plants in the states and Integration of database of various States of the region concerned.
    • ♦To develop strategy for Information, Education and Communication (IEC) and its implementation.
    • ♦To document and disseminate success stories of activities supported by NMPB.