Union Minister has inaugurated India\u2019s \u2018First Lavender Festival’ in Bhaderwah and termed Bhaderwah as the birthplace of India’s Purple Revolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n Note<\/strong>: India\u2019s first National Institute of High Altitude Medicine is also being built in Bhaderwah.<\/p>\n Lavandula (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae.<\/p>\n The flowers may be blue, violet or lilac in the wild species, occasionally blackish purple or yellowish.<\/p>\n Cultivation<\/strong>: Lavender cultivation has employed about 5,000 farmers and young entrepreneurs in geographically remote areas of J&K. More than 1,000 farming families are cultivating it on more than 200 acres.<\/p>\n \u2018Lavender Cultivation\u2019 is getting promoted under CSIR-IIIM\u2019s Aroma Mission<\/a>.<\/p>\n Applications<\/strong>: Lavender has been used over centuries in traditional medicine and cosmetics. For instance, the main product is Lavender oil which sells for at least Rs. 10,000 per litre.<\/p>\n Lavender water, which separates from lavender oil, is used to make incense sticks.<\/p>\n Hydrosol is formed after distillation from the flowers. This is used to make soaps and room fresheners.<\/p>\n CSIR-IIIM introduced lavender to farmers in Doda, Rama, Kishtwar, Kathua, Udhampur, etc.<\/p>\n The mission provided free quality planting material and an end-to-end technology package for cultivation, processing, value addition and marketing of the Lavender crop to the farmers.<\/p>\n CSIR-IIIM also installed 50 distillation units at different locations across J&K under CSIR-Aroma Mission.<\/p>\n Source:\u00a0<\/b>The post is based on the article \u201cMinistry of Science and Technology inaugurates India\u2019s \u2018First Lavender Festival’ in Bhaderwah\u201d <\/b>published in PIB <\/b>on 26th May 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? Union Minister has inaugurated India\u2019s \u2018First Lavender Festival’ in Bhaderwah and termed Bhaderwah as the birthplace of India’s Purple Revolution. Note: India\u2019s first National Institute of High Altitude Medicine is also being built in Bhaderwah. What is Lavender? Lavandula (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of flowering… Continue reading Ministry of Science and Technology inaugurates India\u2019s \u2018First Lavender Festival’ in Bhaderwah<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-186987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700118811},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Lavender?<\/h5>\n
What is the status of lavender cultivation under the CSIR-AROMA Mission?<\/h5>\n