This congress is held in order to achieve the goals of the twenty-year Perspective Document, implementation of Iran’s Comprehensive Scientific Plan and the advancement of national and regional missions aligned with the research of knowledge-based economy and the use of medicinal plants for employment, economy development and safety of food in Iran
The director general of Fars province Customs said, “The export of liquorice from Fars province to foreign countries has had an increase of up to 109 percent.”
Referring to Iran’s rank as number one in production and export of saffron, head of Iran’s National Saffron Council said, “There has been up to 20 percent increase in the export of this product, this year.”
The cultivation area of medicinal plants in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province has had more than fivefold increase, in comparison with 2013.
Head of Ministry of Agriculture Jihad of Ardabil Province announced that 450 medicinal plants species have been identified in Ardabil province.
In 2015, one million, 985 thousand, 555 dollars worth of fresh barberries were exported from Iran to countries such as Germany, United Arab Emirates, Canada, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar and Australia, respectively.
According to 1404 Perspective Document, five hundred thousand hectares of lands will be cultivated with these plants. I
The 5th National Congress on Medicinal Plants was held in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences on Wednesday and Thursday, 18th and 19th of May 2016.
Referring to the commencement of Rosa damascena harvest season from the rose gardens of North Khorasan province, the head of Horticulture Department of Agriculture Jihad said, “With 45 hectares increase, the cultivation area of this flower has been more than doubled to 96 hecares, this year.”
Scientific secretary for the 5th National Congress on Medicinal Plants said, “680 papers will be presented in this event, out of which 35 are in the form of lecture and the rest are posters.”