Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (IBSD) organized traditional healer’s business meet at Upper Shillong for promoting traditional healthcare practices of Northeastern Region. During this event, Prof. Pulok Kumar Mukherjee, Director, IBSD highlighted the initiatives of IBSD for documentation, validation & evaluation of traditional healthcare practices of Manipur and Meghalaya.

He mentioned that IBSD is working on the ethnopharmacological perspectives of medicinal plants including their cultivation, chemical profiling, promotion, value addition and promotion of start-ups in NER. He highlighted that IBSD has organised many such programmes in NER to established linkages between traditional healers, scientific communities and industries.

During the programme, Dr. Suraksha S. Diwan, Head, NER-BPMC, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), New Delhi highlighted various initiative of DBT for NER and various opportunities for the development of bioresources and traditional healthcare practices. She mentioned that IBSD has taken many initiatives for exploring bioresources of NER for the development of bioeconomy.

Dr. U V Babu, Director, Research & Development, Himalaya Wellness Company, Bengaluru highlighted various healthcare products developed based on the medicinal plants mentioned in Ayurveda and used by traditional healers of the region. He mentioned the importance of various quality parameters for the development of herbal products.

Jean Francois Porracchia, Chief R&D Officer, Himalaya Wellness highlighted global perspectives of development of herbal medicines.

The programme was attended by traditional healers of Meghalaya, research scholars, scientists from BRDC, IBSD, Imphal, Shillong and others.