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The growing of medicinal herb and herbs is a lucrative business. Bangladesh at present disburse about Taka 500 million for the import of herbs or herbal extracts to produce medicines.

On the other hand the entire amount can be saved if medicinal plants and herbs are locally produced. There are also enormous prospects of exporting medicinal plants, herbs and herbal extracts provided the growing of the medicinal shrub and herbs is properly developed.

One interpret found that there is a as well positive opportunity for growing curative plants and herbs in the fallow lands of the tea estates, on hill sides at Chittagong and Sylhet. Even farmers can profitably do such planting in small ribbon of lands in their homesteads.

This can be a source of employment and income and also of earning substantial foreign currency. At present, the annual average size of the export marketplace for fresh herbs is some $ 62 billion. The bazaar immensity is projected to expand phenomenally by 2050.

Thus, there are incentives championing businesses to take up the growing of medicinal vegetable and herbs. It is significant that alone about 20 per cent of over 140 million people are in the habit of taking synthetic medicines. A major part of the population opt representing herbal treatment of which the Unani and Ayurvedic systems are the favourites.

Cost is a consideration why so many people are habituated to these different medicines. Their popularity also stems from the effectiveness of treatment and relative safety.

Herbal medicines are proclaimed to create the least or no side effects on patients. The governance may extend support for the development of these traditional set of medical care.

From http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2008/03/09/news0703.htm