Volume 103, April 2014, Pages 26–32
Highlights
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- We developed a web based network of herbal gardens in India.
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- It is available at www.herbalgardenindia.org.
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- It is a decision making system and provides information about the herbal gardens in India.
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- It facilitates the exchange of medicinal plants planting material.
Abstract
In
recent years the demand for medicinal and aromatic plants has grown
rapidly at national and international level because of it a vital role
in supply nutrients as well as strengthen human’s various VITAL systems
to protect from innumerous diseases. The collection, conservation and
exchange of planting material of medicinal plants are some of the major
problems in this sector. Taking these things into consideration, a web
based network of Herbal Garden in India (HGI) has been designed and
developed at Directorate of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research
(DMAPR), Anand, Gujarat, India. HGI is a web based decision making
system and provides information about the herbal gardens in India and
facilitates the exchange of planting material. HGI has been developed
using Tomcat6, Struts 2.0, JavaScript & MySQL and hosted at http://www.herbalgardenindia.org.
System has been designed using modular approach and has separate
modules for garden curators (nodal officers) and general users. Nodal
officers have the right to insert, edit/update and delete data related
to their respective gardens. General users have the flexibility to
access the information about the herbal gardens of India and the system
facilitate to approach nearby garden for the required planting material.
Keywords
- Herbal gardens in India;
- Medicinal plants;
- Planting material;
- Decision making system
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