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More than two thousand farmers visited the Rashtrapati Bhavan’s Mughal Gardens, the Herbal Garden, the Spiritual Garden, the Nutrition Garden, the Jatropha Bio-diesel Farm and the Bio-diversity Park which were kept open exclusively for them today. Those farmers who visited the Gardens were from Delhi and the nearby states of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab .
Farmers were given information and demonstration of commercial aspects of the farming of medicinal and aromatic plants, the bio-diesel plant – jatropha and how to grow organic vegetables by experts from the Central Institute for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP), the National Medicinal Plant Board and G.B. Pant Agriculture University, Pantnagar. Saplings of the herbal plants, Brahmi and Geranium were distributed to the visiting farmers. Farmers also had specific demands of plants which were passed on to the experts from CIMAP.
The President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam also visited the Gardens and met the farmers.
The Gardens were closed for public viewing yesterday, after being open for a month from February 11th to March 13th. More than 6,80,000 people visited, which is an all time high.
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