Ethnobotany Department:

Activities

The following units set up the Ethnobotany department :Taxonomy and Herbarium Unit, Heritage, Ethnoecology & Ethnopharmacology Unit. And Farming & Botanical Garden Unit.

Designing and carrying out research plans as summarized below:

	Identify samples and provide information by extensive literature search needed for plants
	Organizing and classifying of plants and prepare samples to be permanently hosted in the herbarium for further documentation.
	Collect information on Ethnopharmacology by interviewing herbalists in various places
	Perform field trips & survey, which includes recording the distribution of species, assessing the abundance of species and collecting of plant species
	Acquiring data and protecting, analyzing, organizing the data into special data bases Collecting plants in bulk for further Research.
	Perform herbal market survey
	Follow standard procedures to assure Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) in all fields of concerned research
	Responsible for incoming plant samples or others
	Involved in writing monograph of information on samples as well as Scientific paper to be published in related journal
	Design and assist to establish the botanical garden
	Introduce the complex to assigned visitors
	Organizing cultural and educational activities
	Participate and supervise training of students
	Participate and supervise training of students
	Establish excellent relations with concerned departments and institutes
	Participate in community service activities and events