By : Vachaspati Tripathi
General Secretary, Prof. S.N.Tripathi Memorial Foundation
Herbal products are patent or classical industrial products formed by non-conventional or conventional agriculture, forest, horticulture or marine produce, resulting in many fold value addition, intended to be used externally or internally for mankind, animal or agriculture. It includes Neutraceuticals, Cosmoceuticals, food products, Ayurvedic, Pharmaceuticals, Phytochemicals, oils, pesticides, fertilizers, bio-diesels, bio-gas, paper and other plant products.
Introduction
The interest in herbal products is encouraging, safe healing properties, newer researches scientific validation and claims of natural products are attracting the global attention. A group of herbal product is coined as food supplement or functional food in the world market. However even after having wisdom of Ayurvedic knowledge and great biodiversity in India
Government is taking several initiatives to improve this sector as constitution of medicinal plant board and horticulture mission etc. However, because of lack of proper coordination, we are not able to get proper benefit of our efforts.
Facts :
· The global share of Indian herbal products is less than 2 % of the global market.
· Despite the fact that India
· The global herbal market is more than US$ 70 Billion which is growing 7-12 % annually and likely to become US$ 5 Trillion by the year 2050.
Serious and emergence steps are required to fulfill the needs (requirement) and remove the barrier (obstacle) of herbal industry to achieve the global excellence.
On the basis of outcomes of past mobile exhibition “Bharat Samridhi Rath”, Seminar, Workshop, meeting one-to-one interaction and experience, Foundation came to conclusion, depending upon the need, that a serious and urgent attention required to form a Government body which can coordinate between different departments concerned with herbal industries and to fulfill the need and provide the support to achieve the excellence in the herbal product for growth of industries, so that the stake holders of herbal industries, almost 80 % of the population, may be benefited and prosperity can be achieved.
Following are the needs – (3P requirements)
· To produce herbs and herbal products;
· To prove the products quality, safety, purity and efficacy;
· To propagate the products, use and healing properties.
EXPLANATIONS
1. Herbs are colleted and cultivated from forest, mountains and rural sectors providing jobs to almost about 80% of citizens of India
2. Science & Technology–Research and development bring new formula, properties techniques, formulations & products thus develop patent & scientific results creating job opportunities for scientific and other manpower.
3. New formula, formulation and product results in Industrial processing and Industrialization which creates job opportunities and employment to various class of people including technical, Skilled, semi skilled & unskilled resulting growth in Industrial GDP.
4. Products need to be safe, pure, effective and standardized for qualities for basic need of consumer, to compete in market and achieve excellence. This further provides job for scientist, skilled & semi skilled people.
5. Proper logistic/ transportation & timely safe delivery of finished goods, herbs and raw material within the country and abroad brings prompt services and further beauty in the brand establishment and goodwill of company and country, ultimately add to excellence. This further offer job opportunity to logistic sector persons including unskilled, semi skilled & skilled people.
6. The proper education, coordinated management, marketing, regulatory, rules & policies are required to fulfill the needs and remove the barriers thus offering common platform judicious base & working business environment to compete in global market & meet the challenges to achieve global excellence.
Pitfalls
· Limited supply of authentic natural herbal plants,
· Lack of knowledge of proper harvesting and storage,
· Lack of proper processing plants,
· Lack of herbal quality testing facility,
· Lack of systematic chemical and biological evaluation processes
· Over control of drug licensing department,
· Lack of interest of agriculture, food processing, horticulture, marketing and industry department in promoting this sector
· Lack of proper networking between farmers, industries and marketing department.
· Lack of proper agronomic procedures for medicinal plant cultivation
Action plan
1. Policies required to facilitate herbal product marketing & export.
2. Science & Technology is required to standardize and prove safety, purity & efficacy of herbal product and develop new Herbal product.
3. Since, herbal products are value added Industrial products, which are used as food in global market, hence food processing policies should be friendly and promotive for their manufacturing, marketing, logistic, standardization, storage etc.
4. Cultivation and collection of herbs should be promoted by proper agriculture action group.
5. Collection of herbs should be monitored, preserved & advertised from forest area.
6. Industrial policies should be favorable to herbal Industries.
7. Regulatory affairs should be re-examined with respect to herbal product and herbal industries with reference to International rules.
8. Human resources should be properly motivated for activity & knowledge, related to herbal sector.
9. Resources or rural area should be motivated for activities & knowledge of herbal industries, their healing properties & economic benefits.
10. The tribal healing people should be made aware of these benefits & such policies should be made.
11. Proper planning should be made to capture the global herbal markets.
CONCLUSION
When the Indian herbal products acquire the global excellence in qualities, will compete in global market and capture the bigger share of global herbal market. This will result in job generation, employment, self employment, among the sector of skilled, semiskilled and un-skilled people of our country living in rural, suburb, urban, forest and mountain areas, almost covering 80% of Indian population. Thus bringing over all development of our Nation resulting the prosperity in true sense to the dream of Rashtra Bapu-Mahatama Gandhi.
Previous work done in this regards
1. The matter was submitted to hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradeshby Our NGO “Prof SNTripathi Memorial Foundation”
2. Based on her approval a meeting was conducted in Kanpur Industry office and a herbal cell was constituted.
3. Paper published for The Socio Economic & Health Development of SC’S and ST’S by Natural Resources. Dr. V. Tripathi–National Conference on Educational and Socio–Economic Empowerment of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. (Dated 29-30 September 2002)
4. Paper published for Herbal Adulteration. Dr. V. Tripathi–Swadeshi Patrica vol-9,No.4,Chaitra-Baishakh 2061. April 2004.
5. Paper published for Scientific and clinical validation of Natural products for Health & Socio economic empowerment of pure Nation. Dr. V. Tripathi–Chronic inflammatory diseases & Nutraceuticals (Molecular Mechanism of Chronic Diseases, New Targets & Drugs and Basic Concept Ayurveda). (Vol-1, 2005)
6. Paper published for Scientific validation of Natural products to fulfill the futuristic trends in therapeutics vis a vis Health Management. Dr. V. Tripathi–National Symposium on futuristic trends in Pharmaco–Therapeutics & formulation Development. (PTFD- 2005).
7. Paper published for Herbal industry–A Novel industry for Export Promotion and overall development of Nation. Dr. V. Tripathi–National workshop on Global promotion of Traditional medicine in view of Institute–Industry Relationship.(Dated 8th & 9th November, 2002)
8. Paper published for Nutraceuticals & Standardization of Clinical Trials of Herbal Products. Dr. V. Tripathi–Proceeding of second international conference on Herbal Drugs & Health Tourism. Organized by – Utthan.(Dated 16th & 17th December, 2003 IIC, New Delhi
9. Press conference organized to constitute herbal industry commission at Press Club New Delhi.
10. Paper published for “Need to develop Herbal Industry Commission” by Dr. V. Tripathi, MD–Surya Pharmaceuticals–paper published in–Pre-Workshop Proceedings of The two day workshop on Ayurvedic medicines & Practiced–November 13 &14,2006– Ahmedabad, Gujarat, sponsored by TDT Division, Department of Science and Technology, GOI, New Delhi and organized by Indian Geological Congress- Roorkee and B.V.Patel Pharmaceutical Education and research development center–Ahmedabad.(Dated Nov 13 and 14, 2006)
11. Seminar organized entitled “The importance of Herbal Industry Commission for the socio-economic upliftment of India 14th Jan 2007 )
12. “Bharat Samridhi Rath” A mobile exhibition-Jattha organized from 13th October to 31st November 2008 to bring scientific and health awareness for using herbal formulations to remain healthy and to develop herbal based industry.
13. Workshop on “Technological Intervention in Herbal, Natural, Medicinal, Ayurvedic Products”, on 21st February 2009 , Saturday at BHU, Varanasi
Benefits of Herbal Industries
1) Industrial growth..
2) Rural Development.
3) Health improvement.
4) Employment generation for unskilled and skilled person.
5) Export.
6) Social Uniformity to enhance the feeling of self respect among the farmer, SC, ST, OBC and people living in villages, forest, mountain, involved with Herbal Industry.
7) Cow Protection due to use of cow product in industrial process.
8) Per capita income growth by cultivation, collection and processing of herbal plants by farmers and industrial growth including all class of people.
9) Land usages.
10) Conservation of plant, other natural resources including extinct species
11) Pollution Control.
12) Reducing per capita expenses for health management by creating awareness for herbal healing properties.
13) Eco-Friendly System thus controlling global warming and Ozone Layer depletion.
14) Land and soil conservation.
15) Conservation of herbal knowledge, securing patent right under intellectual property right act and becoming GLOBAL KING in herbal products trade.
16) Scope of scientific research, technology & development.
17) Health tourism
18) Herbal natural healing without side effect and toxic affect thus saving people by ADRs.
19) Nutraceutical sector.
20) Cosmoceuticals sector.
21) Revenue generation.
22) Conservation of Indian Health systems and Traditional Practices like Ayurveda, Unani Siddha system
23) World market due to patent law application.
24) Prevention of adverse drug reaction (ADRs) by modern allopathic health system.
Vachaspati Tripathi
Pharmaceutical scientist, Herbal Ind.
General Secretary-Prof. S.N. Tripathi Memorial Foundation
Founder-Herbal Industry Cell, Directorate of Industry UP
Add- 71/Krishna Bagh Nagwa Varanasi-221005 UP
Contact-09415225324, 09335090700
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