The awareness about
the danger using
chemicals contained
in modern medicine
cause people to make
turn using herbal
method. In the
medical field, this
situation shows that
the use of herbal
plants growing
importantly and
worth in the eyes of
the public.
Unfortunately, until
now, the production
of herbal plants is
quite slow because
its only used as a
basis for the
preparation of
traditional medicine
ingredients. This
have also caused
problems to meet the
demand at local
market and the
quality level export
for herbal.
People now needs
large quantity of
herbal plants. To
overcome the lack of
herbal plants, many
efforts have been
made, for example ;
breeding the herbal
plants in large
scale. In fact,
there have been an
efforts to collect
and plant crops or
make the garden of
herbal plants (such
as UKM, USM and FRIM)
to save important
plant species from
extinction due to
the rapid physical
development.
Most of the efforts
to re-plant this
herbal plants be
made from
classification of
diseases (pharmacy
classification).
This effort also
aims to classify the
type of crops
species or genre to
be well maintained
in the future. There
are many problems
faced by the farmer
or entrepreneur to
grow the herbal
plant. Among them,
there are
significant
difference between
the demand and
production of herbal
plants also the
offer price not
currently stable.
This is due to the
lack of knowledge of
farmer in providing
quality herbal
plants and the
quantity type of
herb needed. |