Dehradun, Dec. 6 -- Garhwal Post Bureau

Dehradun, 5 Dec: Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami today directed the officials to lay greater emphasis on innovation, value addition, and marketing in Uttarakhand's medicinal and herbal sector and stressed on the importance of organised work through the creation of village clusters. Chairing a meeting of the Herbal Advisory Committee at the Secretariat here today, the CM underlined the need for focused promotion and conservation of herbal and medicinal products found in the high Himalayan regions.

Dhami instructed that a team of subject experts be deputed to visit two leading states in the herbal and aroma sectors to study their best practices, to enable Uttarakhand to adopt and implement simila...