Author: R. O. B. Wijesekera
As the medicinal plant industry blooms into a billion dollar business, it reaches beyond collection,
propagation, harvesting and sale of crude vegetal drugs into product formulation, packaging and dispensing of sophisticated phyto-pharmaceuticals and herbal preparations. The scientific study of these medicines and the systematic uplifting of the industry to preserve the ancient and serve the modern, is now a
global challenge.The Medicinal Plant Industry puts together the various facets of this multi-disciplinary industry and its global interest. It discusses the dire need for developing countries to acquire technologies and techniques for
programmed cultivation of medicinal plants. It…
