{"id":1152,"date":"2016-05-06T04:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T04:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningpost.today\/eng\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2016-05-06T04:39:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T04:39:09","slug":"symposium-held-on-medicinal-plants-in-swat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/symposium-held-on-medicinal-plants-in-swat\/","title":{"rendered":"Swat University holds symposium on medicinal plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Shehzad khan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MINGORA: \u00a0To highlight the importance of medicinal plants grown in Swat, a two-day national symposium kicked off here on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The symposium titled \u201cNational Symposium on Economic Development through Plants Cultivation\u201d organized by the Swat University\u2019s Centre for Plant Science and Biodiversity. Swat University vice chancellor Dr Jehan Bakht presided over the symposium and was attended by teachers of Quaid Azam University and Agriculture University Peshawar, Heads Of the various departments, faculty members and students of Swat University.<\/p>\n<p>After inaugurating the event Dr Jehan Bakth said that Swat valley was not only bestowed upon the natural beauty, it also held a peculiar status of producing various types of medicinal plants that could not be found anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t undermine the importance of medicinal plants in the contemporary sciences,\u201d he said, adding that proper and timely use of it can protect peoples\u2019 health from different diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stressed need of proper research work in medicinal plants and said the faculty members should encourage students and provide them with assistance and support in their research work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProper researches are essential for the speedy growth and industrialization of medicinal plants,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Zahoor Ahmad Swati vice chancellor of the Agriculture University Peshawar, said the landscape of Pakistan, in general, and of Swat valley, in particular, was enriched with all kinds of natural resources, which were, so far, not tapped into uses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAwareness campaign and research work both are necessary to raise awareness among the people and make good use of these naturally gifted resources,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the economic importance of medicinal plants he said the total global market business of medicinal plants stood at 60 billion US dollars, in which part of the Swat district is 66.6 Million Rupees.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Dr Naveeda Akhtar, Dr Ashiq Ahmad, Professor Dr Abdur Rasheed were also present on the occasion and addressed the participants on the importance of medicinal plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shehzad khan MINGORA: \u00a0To highlight the importance of medicinal plants grown in Swat, a two-day national symposium kicked off here on Thursday. The symposium titled \u201cNational Symposium on Economic Development through Plants Cultivation\u201d organized by the Swat University\u2019s Centre for Plant Science and Biodiversity. Swat University vice chancellor Dr Jehan Bakht presided over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[360,361],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}