The herbal garden of this institute has been developed as a regional medicinal plant garden of eastern India for conservation, demonstration and continual production and supply of quality planting material for distribution to promote on farm cultivation of medicinal plants with the help of National Medicinal Plant Board. The garden has been aesthetically designed and maintained NMPB prioritized and identified medicinal plants as well as local rare, threatened and important species. In the propagation centre plants of selected species are raised to serve as gene pool reserve and a source of supply of quality planting material to stakeholders. Herbal garden has been incorporated in the “Herbal Garden Network” (www.herbalgardenindia.org) of India as one of the largest collections of medicinal and aromatic plant species.Download File