INDIA DATABASE
April 1st, 2003
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKATHE PRESIDENT of India, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has called for the creation of a database of plants used in his country for traditional medicinal purposes, to allow them to be researched and maybe exploited by the Indian pharmaceutical industry. Speaking to a conference organised by the Swami Ramananda Tirtha Institute of Socio-Economic Research and National Integration, he called for the development within India of a manufacturing bases that could convert these resources into value-added medicinal products. These could be sold ...
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