| 'Our
research into the feasibility of domesticating aromatic and
medicinal plants focuses primarily on the question: how can
one enhance biodiversity and at the same time create new sources
of income for farmers in the South?', says Bart de Steenhuijsen-Piters
of KIT Rural Change. Along with colleague John Belt he will
be leaving in July for the Indian state of Uttaranchal, to
establish which of the 220 species of medicinal plants that
have been identified there are most suitable for domestication
and trade.
Anneke
de Maat
KIT website editor
Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
+ 31 20 568 8475
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