National Seminar on Alien Invasive Weeds in India
A three-day National Seminar on Alien Invasive Weeds in India was organized by National
Research Centre for Weed Science at Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat form 27 29
April, 2003.
Fourteen lead papers were presented during the seminar on the
agro-biology and management of some important alien invasive weeds occurring in the
country.
A policy paper stressing the necessity for the development of a
strategy and action plan at National level for the prevention and management of alien
invasive weeds was also discussed.
About 60 posters were displayed covering different aspects of alien
invasive weeds.
About 65 delegates from all over India participated in the
deliberations.
As an awareness raising exercise, specially prepared posters on some
problem weeds viz., Parthenium hysterophorus, Lantana camara, Eichhornia crassipes,
Ipomoea carnea, Mikania micrantha, Ageratum houstonianum, Chromolaena odorata and Mimosa
rubicaulis were distributed to the participants.
The delegates were also taken around the famous Kaziranga National
Park of Assam, home for the endangered single horned rhinoceros. The park is severely
infested by an invasive alien weed Mimosa Spp.
At the end a unanimous resolution was passed by all the participants
requesting the immediate intervention of the policy makers to contain the damage being
caused by these green invaders to the agriculture and environment.
[Source: http://www.nrcws.org/National Seminar on Alien Invasive Weeds.htm]
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