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The conservation program is of two kinds namely exsitu and insitu conservation of medicinal plants. In insitu conservation, about 54 medicinal plant conservation areas (MPCA) have been established with in the forest areas of southern India. As part of exsitu conservation, medicinal plant conservation parks (MPCP) have been established in four states with the support of local communities and NGOs.
http://www.gisdevelopment.net/application/health/planning/healthp0009pf.htm

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A Novel Method for Identification and Domestication of Indigenous Useful Plants in Amazonian Ecuador
J. Friedman, D. Bolotin, M. Rios, P. Mendosa, Y. Cohen, and M.J. Balick*
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1993/v2-167.html

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PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND
DOCUMENTATION IN MOROCCO
Prepared on behalf of the PGR National Committee by
M. Tazi 1, A. Birouk 2, H. Mellas3 & M. Maghnouj4
1Livestock Department; Plant Materials Center (CPSP), BP 79, El Jadida
2Hassan II Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine (IAV Hassan II°), BP 6202, 10101 Rabat
3National Agronomic Research Institute (INRA), BP 415, Rabat
4Forest Department, Centre National de la Recherche Forestière (CNRF), B.P. 763, 10050 Rabat
http://apps3.fao.org/wiews/Morocco/Paper6.htm

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The National Commission on Science and Technology (NCST) coordinated a three-year regional project "Co-operation in the development and transfer of biotechnologies for sustainable development in the Caribbean". Involving Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Guyana and Jamaica, the project has seen advances in the production of hot peppers (Scotch Bonnet and West Indian Red) resistant to known viruses which usually plague the crop.

The primary focus during the period was on the documentation and conservation of medicinal plants of the region, in addition to the identification of potential ones for commercial use. A document collating work conducted at the University of the West Indies (Mona campus) on medicinal plants, over the past fifty years was commissioned and prepared. Additionally, DNA fingerprints were obtained for most of the medicinal plants selected by Jamaica for further study.

http://www.ncst.gov.jm/biodiversity.html

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