Venue: Byrwa, Umsning C&RD, Ri Bhoi
Objective: In order to bring a decisive and transformative change in the rural economy, a mission has been conceptualized which aims to:
1: Promotion of cultivation of High value crops in all districts of the State.
2: Developing demonstration blocks in form of cluster of commercially importance
medicinal and aromatic plants for the state at district level with the area of
approximately 10-20 acres in each district initially.
3: Establishing multiplication and processing facility for elite planting material of high
yielding varieties of selected medicinal and aromatic plants suitable for
Meghalaya.
4: Establishing conservatories of genetic resources as a part of further providing
planting material to the growers.
5: Demonstration of processing facility (distillation unit) related technologies to
development entrepreneurship.
6: GLC
7: Establishing laboratory units for determining chemical content or analysing quality
of oil.
8: To arrange buy back of produce
9: To identify and domesticate the excess exploited medicinal and aromatic plant
from wild source of Meghalaya