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概要

Traditional Medicinal Knowledge of Underutilized Minor Fruits as Medicine in Northeast India: A Preview

Joy Rudra Paul*, AK Panda

Northeast India is gifted with a high genetic diversity of fruits. The Hindustan centre represents as high as 344 species of fruits. Northeast India contains 136 horticultural species. More than 75 percent of the total population of northeast are directly or indirectly depends on agriculture. Wild fruits becomes an important source of food for the peoples this region. This wild fruits are mostly underutilized which are believed to be a major source for the raw material of many drugs and traditional medicines. The underutilized fruit products are of excellent quality in terms of medicinal, nutritional, and economic value but Very Little information is known to the researchers and locals about cultivation practices varieties, yield and quality of these underutilized fruit crops. Hence domestication of potential underutilized species, production of quality planting materials, improvement of vegetative propagation methods in order to reduce the gestation period, standardization of post harvest management and processing needs to be encouraged.