A Garden Get Together

Recently at the venue of 7th Expert group meeting of Assistance to botanic garden,MoEF coordinated by BSI, along with representatives of 38 botanic gardens in India, Green Ahalia also participated in a programme held on 19th December. Apart from making our presentation, we could meet several experts like Dr. Dan Mathew, JNTBGRI, Trivandrum, Prof Madhusoodan Reddy from, Kadappa, Prof. P. P. Baruah from Guwahati, Dr. Nagaraj from IFGTB and 7 other scientists representing 7 different botanic gardens from Kerala. We could interact with each other which indeed was a learning experience.

The meeting also provided us opportunity to visit the Botanic Garden of Indian Republic, Noida and Yamuna Biodiversity Park, Jagatpur Khadar, Wazirabad, Delhi. Each of these are a story of transformation of a nearly barren landscape to a biodiversity rich site. We could get few seeds and seedlings from here for our garden. On our way back we also visited NBPGR, IARI, New Delhi with the Help of Dr. S. P. Ahalwat, Scientist at NBPGR. We are lucky to visit the Genebank, Cryopreservation, Tissue-culture conservation, Nanaji Deshmukh Plant Phenomic centre and field Genebanks. We also got seeds of Lathyrus sativus and seedling of Citrus japonica from here.