Green Ahalia @ KFRI Technical Workshop February 2025

Green Ahalia team members Mr. Sabik S. and Mr. Midhun M. attended two day technical training workshop on “Certification for medicinal plants”, in promotion of the Voluntary certification scheme for medicinal plant produce (VCSMPP), in collaboration with the QCI, New Delhi on 24th and 25th February 2025 at Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI). The programme was inaugurated by Dr. Kannan C. S Warrier, Director, KFRI. The sessions were handled by Dr. N B Brindavanam (Expert in Medicinal plants, Biodiversity and Natural resources), Dr. Satyabrata Maiti (Former Director ICAR – DMAPR) and also Case studies explained by Jangaiah (Manager, PADD, QCI). The training workshop addressed the core issues of medicinal plant produce, quality assurance and certification procedure. In addition, they introduced about Certification schemes for medicinal plants and agricultural produce and benefits of accreditation – like felicitating the global trade. By participating in this event Green Ahalia got benefited by getting a wholistic perspective on the medicinal plant certification and global trade chances in addition to networking with other participants.