healing heritage is a producers company comprising of SHGs and the local healers. It is involved in the production of different medicinal products from a wide range of medicinal plants through the use of indigenous knowledge.The company ensures sustainable livelihoods for the primary producers through value addition and marketing of medicinal plants and their products.
HHPC is registered as a Producers’ Company and has drug licenses for different herbal products. Stakeholders in the company are the primary producers (collectors, cultivators and traditional healers) with equal voting rights irrespective of sharing holding capacity and the membership is voluntary. The general body members are 1102 representatives from different producer’s group of Orissa. A working committee has been constituted with 13 representatives from the general body. Members are spread over different districts of Orissa namely, Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Kalahandi, Rayagada and Cuttack.
THE MAJOR COMPONENTS THAT WE FOCUS ON :-
•Livelihood through uses of medicinal plants and products.
•Revitalization the local health practices through assessment of documented practices with wider replication in other districts of Orissa and states of India through sustained documentation, assessment and promotion.
•Conservation of wild gene pools of medicinal plants in their natural habitats through in-situ conservation practices