Lavender Festival

Lavender Festival

News: Union Minister Dr. Jitender Singh inaugurated India’s ‘First Lavender Festival’ in Bhaderwah.

About:
• He described Bhaderwah as the birthplace of India's Purple Revolution and said that Bhaderwah is the potential destination of Agri-tech StartUps of the country.
• India’s first National Institute of High Altitude Medicine is also being built in Bhaderwah.
• Bhaderwah (also Bhadarwah Valley) is a town, tehsil and sub-division in the district Doda of Jammu.

Lavender:
• Lavandula (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae.
• The flowers may be blue, violet or lilac in the wild species, occasionally blackish purple or yellowish. Lavender has been used over centuries in traditional medicine and cosmetics.
• CSIR-AROMA Mission, under the Ministry of Science & Technology aims to develop and disseminate the aromarelated science and technology to reach the end user/clients of CSIR: Farmers, industry and society.