National Congress of Galbanum (Ferula gummosa) To be Held in October This Year

Indicating that National Congress of Ferula gummosa will be held in collaboration with National Network of Research and Technology in Medicinal Plants, Iran’s Medicinal Plants Society and the relevant institutions and organizations, Dr. Fazel Larijani said, “This congress is held in order to achieve the goals of the twenty-year Perspective Document, implementation of Iran’s Comprehensive Scientific Plan and the advancement of national and regional missions aligned with the research of knowledge-based economy and the use of medicinal plants for employment, economy development and safety of food in our dear homeland, Iran.”

Larijani said, “The pivotal points of this congress are, economy and industry, agriculture, ecology, physiology, breeding and production, phytoremediation, mechanization, biology, biotechnology and tissue culture, environment and sustainable natural resources, agricultural modern technology application, botany, phytochemistry, pharmacy,medicine and traditional medicine, processing and packaging, ecotourism, green space and ethnobotany.”

He further noted that this national congress has an additional advantage for physicians, pharmacist as well as agricultural engineers to retrain, he also indicated that there is an exhibition on the sideline together with technical workshops, and  stressed, “September 15th, 2016 is the deadline to submit the papers.”

The head of National Congress of Ferula gummosa added, “We are endeavoring to annually hold a national and technical congress on medicinal plants in this university  aligned with the activities of the medicinal plants’ center of excellence, all these to make this university a permanent host of technical congresses on medicinal plants in the country.”

He went on to say, “All the researchers, professors and students interested can send their latest findings in this regard to the secretariat of Mazandaran congress, Medicinal Plants’ Center of Excellence office, faculty of Agriculture and Food Industries, Islamic Azad University, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, the old road from Amol to Babol, Amol, Iran”

Having invited all the researchers to participate in this congress, Larijani said, “Those interested can have access to all the latest information via the website: WWW.congress.iauamol.ac.ir or contact us using the following telephone number: 0098 11 4321 70 61 or fax number: 0098 11 4321 70 68.