Sri Lanka, April 29 -- State Minister of Indigenous Medicine Sisira Jayakody said that the declaration of National Moringa Day will be done immediately to make people aware of the nutritious and medicinal value of moringa.

The moringa plant, which is accepted by the whole world as a medicine and food with nutritional properties, is used to eliminate malnutrition in many countries. In order to make parts of the moringa plant an essential component of our daily diet and to encourage people to grow moringa in every house and to make people interested in it, the auspicious day of tree planting of the Sinhala Tamil New Year will be named as National Moringa Day.

The State Minister stated this while participating in the auspicious ceremony of...