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Quality risk assessment on traditional immunity booster plants cultivators in Punjab, India

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Title Quality risk assessment on traditional immunity booster plants cultivators in Punjab, India
 
Creator Singh, P A
Baldi, A
 
Subject COVID-19
Farmers
Good Agricultural Practices
Immunity-booster Plants
Traditional Medicine
 
Description 273-282
In the aftermath of the COVID-19, India has witnessed an increase in the demand for immunity boosting plants. The
Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India through National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB) has decided to emerge
medicinal plants as an attractive farming option in view of generating income for farmers. The aim of this work was to
identify quality gaps through a descriptive study on the farmers of Punjab cultivating immunity booster plants and also
conduct a quality risk assessment study to recognize various critical agricultural materials, processes and their impact on the
critical quality attributes to ensure the pre-determined quality of medicinal plants. The use of chemical fertilizers, less
availability of quality planting material, poor awareness of agro-climatic suitability, and Good Agricultural and Collection
Practices (GACP), were some of the problems in ensuring good quality of immunity booster plants. In order to fill these
gaps, quality risk assessment studies identified critical materials and processes such as seed, fertilizers, pesticides, water,
soil, authentication, sowing, site selection, phytoremediation, harvesting, drying, etc. that affected various quality attributes
viz. yield, active constituents, toxicity indicators, physicochemical ranges and microbial load of immunity booster plants.
Maintaining consistency is one of the major hurdles in agriculture due to several interfering biological and other factors,
hence this quality risk assessment technique would enable farmer to fine-tune parameters by evaluating possible interactions
with in-depth understanding.
 
Date 2023-06-28T12:40:48Z
2023-06-28T12:40:48Z
2023-06
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/62191
https://doi.org/10.56042/ijtk.v22i2.46379
 
Language en
 
Relation Int Cl.23: A61K 36/00
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR,India
 
Source IJTK Vol.22(2) [April 2023]