Medicinal Plants for Health and Wealth

Medicinal and aromatic plants have vast potential in north western Himalayan areas including Jammu and Kashmir and when properly tapped can turn the key of our economy. The State must put forwards its best foot forward to harness this natural bounty to full extant.

The aim of this booklet is to raise awareness – among people and organizations that provide advisory, business and technical support services to resource poor small scale farmers and local communities in low and middle income countries – about the potential opportunities associated with Medical Aromatic Plant (MAP) activities.

It provides advice as to how the right support and services can help promote MAPs trade as both a sustainable and successful livelihood option.

The main features of the book are as follows:

1.This demonstrates that we can rely more heavily on these platforms in the product design process.

2.large market research surveys would be conducted to answer these questions.