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Fallow Land As The Ground For Farming Medicinal Herbs In Russia
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OLGA YU.VORONKOVA, YURI M.AVDEEV, NATALIA A.ALEKHINA, NADEZHDA G.BOCHKAREVA, RUSTEM A.SHICHIYAKH, IRINA N.SYCHEVA
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The production of raw medicinal herbs is important to Russia’s economy, as it covers the domestic pharmaceutical industry’s demand for medicinal herbs. Retrospective analysis of medicinal herb farming and harvesting shows that this sector in its current state-of-the-art relies on self-organization alone and is unable to address the emerging challenges and to improve its profitability. Addressing these challenges and increasing the production of medicinal herb material would require effective state regulation of enterprises in the sector, as well as finding land plots suitable for the environmentally safe cultivation of medicinal herbs. The world today is showing an ever-greater interest in medicinal plants because they have beneficial effects on the human body while also being widely applicable in many industries. Despite intensive high-tech advancement, demand for medicinal herbs is on the rise. In Russia, like in many other countries, access to medicinal herb material is a strategic priority of the public policy, as it covers at least three critical policy aspects: national security, health, and agroindustrial complex development. Besides, as the government strategizes upon import substitution in the light of economic sanctions, domestic production of medicinal raw materials has become even more relevant. Medicinal herb materials are a strategic resource and the basis of medications that enable the people to stay healthy and viable. They are reproduced by collecting wild medicinal herbs, as well as by agricultural farming. The former is an environmentally friendlier and less costly way; however, wild plants are depletable, enable no labor optimization, and have uncontrollable qualitative and quantitative properties. The goal hereof is to create an organizational mechanism to boost agricultural farming of medicinal herbs in environmentally prosperous regions of Russia using fallow land for such farming.
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medicinal herb farming, fallow land, medicinal herb material, unused arable land, regional development programs, forecast
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP1.309
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