A laborer scrapes the bark from a cinchona tree. The bark is then sundried and pulverized to make the drug quinine. The story behind the chance discovery of the anti-malarial drug quinine may be ...

The Directorate of Cinchona and Other Medicinal Plants (DCOMP) in collaboration with Cluny Women’s College, held the ...

The list is not confined to natives of the country, but includes also such introduced plants as are largely cultivated and of great economic importance, as cinchona, tea, cacao, tobacco ...

Highlighting the historic exploitation of tea and cinchona garden workers, Mr Bista cited Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce Report No. 171, which noted: “Tea workers are in such dire ...