Exploring hidden potentials of wild edible plants by SAVITA, KUNDA, VINOD

Wild edible plants posses high nutritional values. Knowledge on wild edible plants is remained restricted to tibial. Hence such kind of projects needs to be taken up on priority so that its potential and nutritional values can be estimated scientifically. Foods/dishes prepared from it can become part of routine diets.

 i like this project, if it is implemented it will give variety of nutritious food in future when there is a shortage of food because of drastic climate change and global warming. 

Good Food Good Life

1. Wow, new food and that is nutritious too in preparation. Useful project nicely written. Good luck

"Wild edible plants", most of us haven't come across this term after school days.

Nutritious food:

I do prefer Nutritious food from the Supermarkets, keeping in mind that I am not going to get a high amount of nutrition due to heavy usage of pesticides, plants cultivated in a volatile climate and unsuitable soil & bad storage.

I Appreciate the analysis & solution mentioned in this paper, as I believe this can address the issues mentioned above related to nutritious food.

If I am not wrong, "Wild edible plants" can be cultivated in all types of soil, climate and in less water (suitable for countries having water crisis), because here in UK type of soil & climate changes approximately in every 200 miles.
@ SAVITA, KUNDA, VINOD: Am I correct here?

Pollution:

Wish you all healthy life but all types of pollution are rising at an alarming rate in all world cities, resulting in a challenge to have a disease free & healthy life.

An average age of “CITY” citizen has been decreased by 2-3 years.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/air-pollution-linked-to-health/

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs313/en/

In last 2 decades, there is a significant hike in patients affected by Hypoxia, Hypoxemia & asthma.
And the culprit is carbon dioxide.

It would be a value addition if the same solution "Wild edible plants" can help in controlling carbon dioxide and provide fresh oxygen & I believe it does, right?

Insect repellent:

@ SAVITA, KUNDA, VINOD: Are these ‘Wild edible plants’ efficient to repel unwanted insects like mosquitos?

If yes, then it could be the valid possible solution for many of the countries in Africa & Asia, which are heavily suffering from Malaria transmission.

http://www.rollbackmalaria.org/countries/endemic-countries-1

Ease:

It is my understanding that these plants can be cultivated in normal plant pots and don’t need any special, extra care or maintenance, correct?

@ SAVITA, KUNDA, VINOD: Good work on this research, well done! Appreciate your efforts, you get my vote!

This could revolutionize the dietary industry. Could bring some new nutrients previous available only in some selected foods in our daily diet.

Good work on this research, well done! Appreciate your efforts, you get my vote!

I appreciate the proposal due to its new concept “Edible Wild plants: A unexplored wealth to mitigate malnutrition and hunger. Which is really our ancient wealth but now forgotten due to lack of awareness and knowlwdge.

Now a days we are seeing most of food crops are grown with heavy use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides which are making us unhealthy and diseases prone. Even we see reduced resistance to many deadly diseases (Cancer and others). Even due to high pollution and residual effects of pesticides in our present day foods the average age in most of developing and developed countries has come down by 2-3 years.  Hence this kind of project is need of present time. This proposal addresses the food security issues in developing countries of Asia & Africa at the same time this less known and used foods and can be grown on all types of soils having less infestation from insect (High level of resistance to insect pests) and at same time new crops with novel tests with high nutritive value will be available for routine cultivation ultimately solving in part the problem of hunger in highly populated countries where number of children are dying due to malnutrition and even due to hunger.    

Hence I strongly support this proposal for final contest.

My best wishes to authors of this proposal.  

West land be used to create more forest which will be more useful for the betterment  of mankind. To reduce the bad beffects of climate change and also for cultivation. It can also be used for cultivating edible plants for animals.

I strongly support Dr.Savita and her team and there efforts of research and use of modern technology that will help to improve the situation of Indian farmers.  

Excellent idea. We all support your endeavour.

Really it is enexplored, untapped with huge potential.

I like this project

 Wild edible plants (WEPs) are widely consumed in the daily diet of the local people. WEPs are critical for the sustenance of ethnic communities and also as a source of income. Super Idea.

Nicely written project. Authors needs to address how this project will help in poverty alleviation in tribal areas. Tribals are out of main stream even after 68 years of independence. i strongly support the project which is going to work closely with tribal

It is very useful project as per as common man concern

I strongly endorse this project mainly because research project focus towards conservation of biodiversity of wild plants, development of agro-techniques to make wild cultivable, empowerment in tribal areas, economic support to tribal and providing alternative foods that are not part of routine diets. Since wild type plants can be grown on any kind of soil and climate, its widespread cultivation is possible in India and Asian countries provided it is profitable to grow. Good luck to team!

I am really happy with such proposal. if we see there are only few major food crops that cover maximum population of world. if any major disease affect food crops like rice or wheat and reduce production more than 50% it is very difficult to survive. As these crops also derived from weeds to cultivable crops during domestication it is possible to search such new wild species and cultivate them so there will be an alternative for existing crops. also it is helpful to maintain biodiversity. 

This proposal is very unique and it would provide a great opportunity to researchers of interdisciplinary learning. Also this project would be the indigenous attempt towards updating the biodiversity of wild edible plants available in India. India is known to be agricultural country yet faces food scarcity, such projects would be the great solution. This project would empower employment , economy and intellect of country. I congratulate the authors for such a well thought and well written proposal and strongly support for the implementation of project.  

1. this proposal by Dr.Savita and her team if executed properly ,then it would be an excellent alternative for increasing cases of malnutrion especially in remote tribal areas of maharastra India in general and in Nashik region perticular
2. the research work is worthy enough to meet current challenges of Indian Agrarian Development. 

Excellence article.

Nice project on a topic needing urgent attention. This project is promising and can go in a long way to improve the ecosystem, conserve biodiversity, provide incomes to the locals and nutritive food to the general public.

I support this proposal very much because in my opinion if we could able to use unused land for cultivation of Wild edible plants so that it will not only helpful for biodiversity conservation but also it will be turned as a income source for rural community. 

Its really good research.

I am from  IT background but You explained very clearly to helpful me to understand your idea.
All the best for your idea.

I support this new research... 

I have supporting to this proposal very much. This study is good against the increasing demond of food, this is the best way to fulfiling the populations food need. Once again thanx

Excellent Article........

Nasik, India, known as grape city which comes under western ghats and it is rich in biodiversity, includes many wild edible plant species. Various tribal communities are found using these wild edible plants as their food and medicine. The urban communities in this area are not much aware about the importance of wild edible plants and even researchers have not paid much attention on this subject. Our institute  SMRK-BK-AK Mahila Mahavidyalaya (Women's college), Nasik has decided to work in this direction. Our faculty member Dr. Savita Borse took the initiative and started work in collaboration with department of forest, Govt. of India. Savita and her team explored the tribal knowledge in small area around Nasik through survey. The experimental work for analysis of nutritional and anti nutritional components from wild edible plants was conducted in our laboratory and other research organizations. Also the recipes were developed for some of the wild edible plants by nutritionist. The small steps taken by the author team in exploring nature's wealth is well appreciated as it will be helpful to face the global challenges in future. In my opinion this is the novel approach to meet the nutritional demand of growing population, conservation of local biodiversity, increasing employability and the uplift of economy.

Initial results obtained by authors are encouraging and much more needs to be done. Project submitted to the Climate Co Lab is the right step to reveal the potential of wild edible plants. MIT is the right platform to investigate on this topic thoroughly.

All the very best to team.

with traditional knowledge the wild edible plants highly useful in day to day life. there is no any plant in the universe which is not having the medicinal property.