Roskruge, Nicholas Rahiri is a Professor in Ethnobotany at the School of Agriculture & Environment, College of Sciences, Massey University. He has a degree in Horticultural Technology majoring in crop and soil systems and has completed a Ph.D. in Soil Science which developed a management model suited to Maori land. He is involved in a wide range of projects throughout the country related to Māori development. The most well known is the Taewa Maori project which involves iwi (tribe) and projects throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand. He is also a Chairman of the National Maori Vegetable Growers Collective, Tahuri Whenua Inc. Soc. His research interests include Horticulture/vegetable production, Maori Resource Studies, Maori & Pacific Agribusiness, Ethnobotany. He has published many papers and is the author of many books in these fields. He has also lead many projects like 'Our Land and Water (OLW) Vision Matauranga Think Piece', 'Tracing the influence of cultivation on the whakapa of endemic NZ plants with molecular markers' etc. He also teaches at the University and has supervised many M.Sc. and Ph.D. students on various components of the Maori community. His other areas of expertise include Soil Sciences, Farm Management, Rural Management, Agribusiness and Environmental Sciences.

This is the first National Virtual Consultation on “Multi-faceted Citizens’ Portal on Medicinal Plants” organised to take the suggestions from citizens across India