Herb business: an idea with potential

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Source eKapija, 31. 08. 2010.
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AUGUST 31, 2010 - Healing and aromatic plants can contribute to local economic development, primarily of rural areas. According to some estimates, the annual harvest of medicinal and aromatic plants in the country ranges between 1,500 and 9,000 tons, and these variations depend on a demand and climatic conditions of a region where the plants are harvested.

Bosnia is the country with a rich diversity of healing herbs. Namely, it is believed that in Bosnia and Herzegovina grows over 700 species of medicinal and aromatic plants, out of which only 200 is exploited.

More and more, especially in rural communities, people decide to use these resources. The EkoMozaik Company of Scekovici, is currently planning to plant an area of about 225 acres with orchards of medicinal herbs and honey plants, very popular in domestic and foreign markets.

According to Rajko Lazic the company’s director, resources to grow medicinal herbs in this area, as well as in the entire BiH, are enormous.

To start plantations, he says, they need to complete a study that will show which plants grow best in those areas, when and how to harvest them, when to go into the process of distillation and essential oils production, etc. The study should be ready in 15 days.

With the plantations of honey and medicinal plants, the company will become the largest producer of medicinal herbs in BiH and beyond. In fact, the largest plantation of BiH lies on 60 acres of land. This would also create the prerequisites for the production of essential oils and honey.

That Bosnian market is in need of those products shows the information that Bosnia imported, last year only, 120 million KM worth of essential oils.

Lazic says that their project is important in not only boosting the economy, but hiring hundreds of people from the said municipality.

D.Kozina