ONE DAY PRE CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Date: 12-02-2010, Friday

Venue: Cholayil medicinal plants and Conservation Park, Velagapuram (40 kms away from Chennai)

Subject: Herbal botany / Agri workshop on “Identification, characterization, and chemical identification (chemical finger printing) of medicinal plants”.

ABOUT CHOLAYIL MEDICINAL PLANTS AND CONSERVATION PARK
Medicinal herbs are sourced from the Cholayil Medicinal Plant Conservation Park, a 120 acres well developed farm having plain forestland on one side and the 50-acre water reservoir on the other. Surfing the lake, there runs a 3000 feet canal covering the entire northern boundary. Apart from orchids and ornamental plants, Cholayil Herbal Garden houses hundreds of medicinal plants as well. The Cholayil Medicinal Plant Conservation Park, houses rare and endangered medicinal plant species, substitutes, controversial, spurious plants also and there are about 400 medicinal plants that are preserved and reared under controlled conditions in the green houses with a view to study their growth pattern for mass propagation.Cholayil Group has taken upon itself the challenge to develop this Conservation Park as a “Model one” and make it as a place of interest on the maps of researches, scholars, academicians and admirers of herbal medicines and botany.The aim of the Herbal Garden is to develop into a good referential farm where one can see authentic, recognized medicinal plants and to cultivate and grow herbs to meet their exacting standards and compare the quality of herbs purchased from other sources
Resource person for work shop
Drafted from the faculty of various teaching and research institutions, private research institutions and industry.
Demonstration
1. Identification of plant parts by its morphology and anatomy
2. Product identification – original, substitutes and spurious
3. Focus on phytoconstituents
4. Standardization of herbal products- with modern sophisticated equipments
5. Process techniques, extraction, separation, and identification
6. Organic farming & organic pesticides

Know more about bio fertilizers- bio pesticides, eco friendly bacteria, pachagavyam, organic pesticides, bio gas plant and live demo of vermicomposte production, also an opportunity to see our herbal garden

Registration form for participants:
Rs.450/- will be collected from the participants for registration. A concessional combo plan is available to attend both conference and workshop (Please refer the registration fee plan)
Eligibility for admission to the workshop
PG students of life science, agriculture, botany, forestry, Horticulture, Pharmacology, research scholars, ISM practitioners, NGO’s engaged in conservation of medicinal plants etc.Technicians engaged in the analytical, R&D laboratories of ISM manufacturing units