CULTIVATION, COLLECTION, PROCESSING AND STORAGE OF CRUDE DRUGS: It is a scientific approach to healthy growth of medicinal plant in large scale. The growth is defined as progressive development of the organs with respect to various factors.
Some of the advantages of cultivations are:
- Cultivation ensures quality and purity of medicinal plants.
- It gives better healthy yield and therapeutic effects.
- It minimizes biodiversity.
- It supplies the raw materials to the industries throughout the year.
- It provides disease free plants.
- It increases industrialization and helps in unemployment problem.
