The cultivation area of medicinal plants in this province has had eightfold increase in comparison with 2013.

The managing director of Qazvin Province’s International Fair Company announced that there was the first Medicinal Plants’ Exhibition in Qazvin as well as the fourth Exhibition of Plants and Flowers, Horticultural and Greenhouse Equipment.

Two new laboratories have been added to the list of laboratories covered by National Laboratory Network of Medicinal Plants, under the management of National Network of Research and Technology in Medicinal Plants.

This bylaw is for the establishment of Iranian traditional medicine healthcare institutes, signed by the Minister of Health and Medical Education.

Theoretical and practical workshop on isolation and purification of oleuropein active compound from the leaves of Olea europaea L. will be held by the National Network of Research and Technology in Medicinal Plants .

In a meeting in Tehran, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Romania discussed the collaborations in terms of forests, rangelands and medicinal plants.

Number 1, volume 32 of the quarterly publication of Iran’s Medicinal and Aromatic Plants was issued with 15 scientific and research papers.

The secretary of National Council for Science and Technology Development of Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine said, “94 percent of the world’s saffron is cultivated in Iran.”

The general manager of Natural, Traditional Products and Supplement Supervision of Iran’s Food and Drug Administration indicated that 1,713 medicinal plant products exist in the country.

The first Traditional Medicine and Medicinal plants’ Conference was held in Hamedan Province, concurrent with Avicenna’s birthday.