The MoU aims at initiating the knowledge partnership for establishing the secondary agriculture unit to develop the skills like latest technologies. 

 The ICAR-Directorate of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research (DMAPR), Anand, Gujarat signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, Gujarat recently. 

Dr Satyajit Roy, Director, ICAR-DMAPR emphasized on the importance of the partnership program that would help in triggering the framing of indigenous technologies of the medicinal plants. This would be a step forward in the sustainable collection and cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants in the country. 

Dr T.R. Ahlawat, Associate Director of Research, Centre for Advanced Agricultural Sciences and Technology (CAAST), New Delhi opined that MoU would be beneficial medicinal farming community in the country.

The MoU aims at initiating the knowledge partnership for establishing the secondary agriculture unit to develop the skills like latest technologies in the different spheres of secondary agriculture, capacity building, competency development, product development and its commercialization for the students and farmers.