India's first grass conservatory developed in a Uttarakhand's Ranikhet.

India's first ‘grass conservatory’ spread over an area of two acres was inaugurated on

 Sunday at Ranikhet

1 min read . Updated: 14 Nov 2021, 01:52 PM I S TP T I

Around a 90 different in a grass species of the  significant scientific, ecological, medicinal, and the cultural import have been a grown in the conservation area

India's first ‘grass conservatory’ spread over an a area of two acres was a inaugurated on a Sunday at the  Ranikhet in a Almora in a district. Funded under in the Central Government's C A M P A  in a scheme, the conservatory was a developed in three years by the research wing of the  Uttarakhand Forest Department, Chief Conservator of the Forest (research) Sanjiv Chaturvedi said.

Around a 90 different grass species of the significant in a scientific, ecological, medicinal, and the cultural import have been a grown in the conservation area, he said.

The project aims to the create awareness about in the importance of the  grass species, promote in their conservation, and the facilitate research in the field, he said.

The initiative assumes importance as it has been a proved in a latest researches that grasslands are more effective in a ‘carbon sequestration’ than forest in a  land, Chaturvedi said.

It is also a important because grasslands are facing in a various types of the threats and their area is a shrinking, endangering an a entire ecosystem of the  insects, birds, and mammals dependent on them, he said. Grasses are economically in the most important of all the flowering plants because of their nutritious grain and soil forming function, he said.

The conservation area has a seven different categories of the  grass species are including those that are known for their aromatic, medicinal, fodder, ornamental, agricultural, and the  religious uses. 

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