Soon, new varieties ofRosemaryandDamaskrose – high-value aromatic crop – developed by city-based CSIR-Central Institute of Plants“>Medicinal And Aromatic Plants (CIMAP) will spread their fragrance in Uttarakhand and bring smiles to the faces of farmers struggling with financial, climatic and crop loss due to wild animals.
Under its ‘Aroma Mission’, the CIMAP aims at increasing the income of farmers through cultivation of aromatic plants.
It was started in India in 2016 but will be launched in Uttarakhand for the first time.