‘Kappatagudda a repertoire of medicinal plants of Gadag’ will be unveiled on Sunday
GADAG: The Kappatagudda wildlife sanctuary spans over 244.15 sq km in Gadag, Mundargi and Shirahatti taluks of Gadag district. An IFS couple, Yashpal Kshirsagar and Sonal Vrishini, have now come up with the book ‘Kappatagudda a repertoire of medicinal plants of Gadag’.
Kshirsagar, who is now the DCF in Dharwad, told STOI that he worked as DCF Gadag from 2015 to 2018 and had come across a huge repertoire of medicinal plants during various field visits.
“Although, the medicinal plants of Kappatagudda were mapped by Foundation of Revitalization of Local Health Tradition (FRLHT) a few years ago, the need to present an elaborative distribution of various medicinal plant species emphasising the presence of this unique landscape was felt. We at the Gadag division decided to be compile the information available at numerous places in form of a book. My work was continued by my successor, who by