Вирощування лікарських рослин на сільських селітебних територіях: переваги та проблеми

Abstract

The purpose. To determine factors influencing quality of cultivated medicinal plant raw material at small-scale production. Methods. Field, laboratory, questioning, statistical, analytical. Sampling of plants was carried out according to the approved state standards (DFU, EF), procedures and recommendations of monitoring rural residential areas. Results. Cultivation of medicinal plant raw material in private households of rural residential areas of region of probes is founded on historical basis. Series of factors promoting cultivation of medicinal crops is specified, as well as the basic risks and problems originating at cultivation of medicinal plant raw material are determined. It is fixed that in private households preference is given to growing 12 kinds of plants. Dynamics of changes of assortment and areas borrowed by medicinal crops is specified. The urgency of rational disposition of medicinal crops in small equipments on the area is illuminated. Conclusions. Series of positive and negative factors influencing cultivation of medicinal plant in conditions of small-scale production in private households is determined. The advantages are: self-busy condition and self-security of population for deriving profit, high purchase price of raw material, opportunity of prolonged storage of the finished product, adjusted infrastructure of its marketing. Risks influencing quality of medicinal plant raw material: instability of demand, absence of specialized means of protection, conforming means of mechanization and inventory, price policy on quality seeds. At cultivation of medicinal crops in private households more attention is given to raw material got from above-ground part of a plant (grass).