Sjemenarstvo, Vol. 14 No. 1-2, 1997.
Review article
THE POSSIBILITY OF INTRODUCTION OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS WITH MARKETING SYSTEM SCORE IN REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA
Dea Baričević
; Biotehniška fakulteta, Ljubljana, Slovenija
Alenka Zupančić
; M-KŽK Kmetijstvo Kranj, LFVB- Kranj, Slovenija
Tomaž Bartol
; Biotehniška fakulteta Centar AGRIS, Ljubljana, Slovenija
Jelka Dedek
; ITEO, Ljubljana, Slovenija
Abstract
Nowadays, processed drug plants exemplify modern alternative products which appeared in European and world economies as market niches. New domestic and international markets for these products offer to the agrarian economies self-supply of raw material, new possibilities for employment, and render the economy stable, permanent and prosperous. The competitiveness of plant raw material on the European marketplace, where quality became the essential necessity, can only be assured if following parameters are respected: decide on prosperous plant species, its accurate taxonomic identification (genotype specification) and implementation of good agricultural practice to the production agrosystems. In medicinal and aromatic plants agrosystems, the key link in success chain is a marketing system through which the product is distributed. The results of market analysis showed , that the yield issued from the cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants on the area of about 20 ha is estimated to 50 tons. 165 tons of drug plants is obtained from native habitats. Overall supply of drug plants and of their half-products (domestic supply 215 t, import of drug plants 1157 t, import of half-products - fluid extracts, dry/dense extracts, essential oils 62 t) exceeds overall demand after drug plants. 707 t of drug plants and 8.2 t of half-products, which could be cultivated/produced in Slovenia, are imported. Discrepancy between demand and supply shows the need of quality-based regulation of imports and/or development of domestic cultivation/processing of medicinal and aromatic plants/half-products.
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168347
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Publication date:
15.3.1997.
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