CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM) Jammu organized a one day awareness-cum-training programme on dated 09.10.2017 on the cultivation, processing and marketing of aromatic plants in the around 23 growers and agro-entrepreneurs participated.

The CSIR-Scientific faculty and technologists gave the overall profile, works and the mission of the CSIR. They also informed the participants that these crops are cost and labour effective which need low input cost besides minimum labour compared to the traditional plants and also assured the farmers of full marketing support. They briefed the farmers on the objectives and guidelines of the mission. The Aroma Mission has been launched to boost cultivation of aromatic crops like aromatic grasses, Jammu monarda, Mentha species, Ocimum species, Lavender, Rosemary, Salvia and Geranium. The cultivation of nine crops can be propagated in the unutilized rainfed lands.