Tamil Heritage Trust
It is widely known that Ayurveda pays equal attention to the
maintenance of good health as well as to the treatment of diseases. But
did you know that there is a branch of this discipline that pays the
same attention to the maintenance of the good health of plants and to
the methods for the treatment of plant diseases? In fact there is
an enormous and elaborate corpus of literature in this field of
Vrikshayurveda which offer a range of practices for the nutrition and
treatment of plants.
In her talk titled, "Vrikshayurveda: A Legacy of Agriculture for Safe and Sustainable Food Production", Dr Sunita T Pandey
of the G B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, provides an
overview of this area of study, explains its roots in Ayurveda and
demonstrates how many of its rich and varied ancient practices can still
be found in our farms.
Online Talk in English on January 4, 2025.
Dr Sunita T Pandey, who holds a PhD in Agronomy, serves as
Professor in the Department of Agronomy of the G B Pant University of
Agriculture and Technology, Uttarakhand where she has over three decades
of experience in teaching, research and extension work. She was
the recipient of the Faculty Excellence Award in 2021, 2022 & 2023.
Her passion is to rejuvenate, innovate, validate, and popularize the
eco-friendly sustainable time-tested and time-honoured ancient and
medieval Vrikshayurveda-based agricultural practices. She has
guided 20 research scholars in Masters and Doctoral programs on the
validation of Vrikshayurveda based practices.
She was instrumental in establishing the Y L Nene Training &
Research Centre at GBPUAT, Pantnagar with the financial Support of
Indian Knowledge System (IKS), division of Ministry of Education,
Government of India. As Principal Investigator, she leads a
multidisciplinary team of over thirty scientists is working on various
research projects in this domain.
Dr Pandey has a number of research publications to her credit in her
specialization and is the Senior Editor of Vrikshayurveda newsletter
published by AAHF. She serves as a Member on several State and National
level working committees on natural farming, including those established
by ICAR, CSIR-NIScPR, NCERT and Government of Gujarat among others. She
also serves as Honorary Executive Secretary, Asian Agri-History
Foundation (AAHF), GBPUA&T, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand.
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