• Jai Prakash Singh
• Dr. MD. Khatibullah Hamidi
• Dr. MD. Naseem
• Amit Kumar Lovely
• Gopal Jha

Bihar covers 94,163 Km2 area but lack floristic information and looking at the high rising value of food and food products necessity of nutritive quality and consumption of edible plant cultivated and their wild relatives exploration of different district of Bihar have been conducted since 2014 – 2017. These plants on large scale are basically identified by the tribal people and introduced in the local markets to earn economy. The present study reveals the current status of some rare fruit plants in Bihar. Several times plants are used as staple food while some are used at the time of scarcity like famine drought etc. This is represented by 13 fruits plants, all the genera and species and varieties have been enumerated with easy taxonomic and generic distributional records at state, National and global level. The valid names are provided along with author citation(s).

Fruit, Plants, Famine, Bihar

"Studies of Plant Biodiversity Promoting Cultivation and Conservation Strategy of Rare Fruit Plants of Bihar", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no.171-173, June-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1810A75.pdf

"Studies of Plant Biodiversity Promoting Cultivation and Conservation Strategy of Rare Fruit Plants of Bihar", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no. pp171-173, June-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1810A75.pdf