Lavender Revolution

29.01.2024

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   Why in the news?

Recently, CSIR’s Republic Day Tableau highlights the Purple Revolution through Lavender Cultivation in Jammu & Kashmir.

Key Point

• Under the Viksit Bharat theme, Tableau highlights the Lab-to-Market success story of CSIR.

About Lavender Cultivation:-

• The Ministry of Science and Technology initiated the Purple Revolution or Lavender Revolution in 2016.
• The Aroma Mission of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research led the Purple Revolution.

Objectives:–

• To promote the cultivation of aromatic crops for essential oils.
• To enable Indian farmers and the aroma industry to become global leaders.
• To provide benefits to the farmers in achieving higher profits, utilization of waste lands and protection of their crops from wild and grazing animals.
• Provided employment to women farmers
• Under this, the government aims to promote lavender crops by incentivising farmers to shift to the indigenous aromatic crop from other foreign alternatives.
• The nodal laboratory for the Aroma Mission is the CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CSIR-CIMAP),
• Farmers who produced lavender for the first time were provided free lavender seedlings as part of the goal.
• Those who had sown the crop before were paid 5-6 by the government per plant.

Significance:-

• It is expected to enable Indian farmers and the aroma industry.
• Lavender cultivation has employed about 5,000 farmers and young entrepreneurs in geographically remote areas of J&K.
• It will promote the cultivation of aromatic crops for essential oils that are in great demand by the aroma industry.
• This will help in the production of an additional 700 tonnes of essential oil for perfumery, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries.                                                          

                                                                 Source: PIB