Forest Medicinal Plants

We will start a small business. We can make plates and bowls from sal leaves found in our forest.

— Upendra Kumar Mahananda

We want to bring all the traditional medicines, including roots and herbs, that are available. And we want to save the forest. All the traditional games that were played...

— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha

I want to save traditional medicine, herbs, roots, and trees.

— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha

We can collect all the medicinal things found in the forest and show them to future generations and preserve them.

— Anupama Mahanand

We tribal people bring herbs from the forest to treat many diseases, for the well-being of people.

— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh

Due to the cutting of trees and plants in the village, various herbs and food items are becoming extinct. We can protect them.

— Mohan AHARI · Sarera, Udaipur, Rajasthan

Traditional medicinal remedies are being prepared for obtaining by searching for medicinal herbs, fruits, roots, and other medicinal items from the forest.

— Padmalochan Majhi · Gandhinagar, Rayagada, Odisha

We can use muIdim found in the forest as traditional medicine.

— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha

Residents in the forest bushes have a business of various medicinal plants, and they benefit from it for food.

— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

I myself want to bring back the lost forest produce, which people are over-exploiting.

— Priti Majhi

We will collect vegetables available in the village, sell them in the market, establish a community group, and support our family.

— Anirudha Marai

I am in the forest, searching for medicinal herbs. I have passed deep into the forest. People will then give medicine, and they will come again to the forest to clear it.

— Parsuram Sa · Sundargarh, Odisha

Herbs of the forest

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We tribal people bring herbs from the forest and treat ailments, which is very important for health.

— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh

We must protect our forests so that herbs remain.

— Chanda

The villagers of Amba are making efforts to protect and revive their existing traditional forest. If the government provides some assistance to protect various types of herbal medicines, they will surely be able to protect them.

— Padmalochan Majhi · Ratachua, Rayagada, Odisha

We will arrange to pack some of the items obtained from forest products and supply them to the market, and if some trailer machines are available, we will also try to use them.

— sudhir gamanga · Gadiakhala, Ketalugurha, Rayagada

Our medicinal herbs, vegetables, fruits, and trees are depleting from the forests.

— Kachala Choudhary

We get treatment from the forest.

— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

People want to bring back the lost forest food products.

— Priti Majhi

Today our medicinal fruit foods are becoming extinct. I will try to encourage people to protect them. Along with that, I myself will also

— KusaPradhani · Gandhinagar, Rayagada, Odisha

We can bring and use some medicinal properties found in the forest, such as chiro or polamula, and by showing it to the children, to them.

— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha

We get various types of fruits and roots from the forest.

— Laba Kumar sabar · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, Odisha

To create permanent wealth by selling village resources such as date palm fruits, berries, char fruits, mahua, sal seeds, ground gourd, and medicine.

— Anirudha Marai

My name is Isaac Sabar, village Zero Number, Panchayat Mandi Mandi, District Kandhamal. I feel that in the current situation, people used to use traditional forest products, which are forest-derived goods, in large quantities to sustain their livelihoods, but due to the lack of forests, they have disappeared. We want to restore the forests so that we can enjoy those forest products just like our ancestors used to.

— SUBASH SABHASUNDAR · Gajapati, Odisha

Our family collects broom grass from the forest, bundles it, and sells it in the market. The profit earned will be used to sustain our family, purchase other essential items, fund our children's education, and for similar needs.

— Batakrushna Sahoo

After receiving that twenty rupees, I am thinking of starting a small business with all the forest products that are available from the forest.

— Prasanna Pradhan · Udala, Mayurbhanj, Odisha

We should preserve our culture so that herbs and forests remain.

— Chanda

Bringing leaves from the forest, then bundling/pressing them, and then selling them.

— sophia akoijam · Khunta, Mayurbhanj, Odisha

We will bring sal leaves from Mangal (a source/place), prepare them by stitching (into plates/bowls), and release them into the market. Turmeric is also available; by packing the turmeric, we can do business in the market.

— sudhir gamanga · Birikota, Rayagada, Odisha

I will collect food found in the forest and feed the children, and use it traditionally.

— Anupama Mahanand

Our ancestors used to live, grow and maintain trees, and collect fruits and roots. Now, with all the trees gone, many conveniences are being lost. Let us all plant trees again.

— Bisendra Naik · Kasipur, Rayagada, Odisha

My name is Susmita Pradhan. We are the indigenous, original inhabitants. We wish to live in harmony with nature, producing our own food. We are demanding the government to conserve the things that are disappearing from the market. We are requesting the government to restore the forest products like roots and various forest items that are disappearing.

— RITARANI PRADHAN · Raikia, Kandhamal, Odisha

So that future generations can know about the trees and plants in the forests that protect us from disease.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh