The head of the Association of Iranian Medicinal Herbs Scientific Association at the first national conference on biotechnology of herbs and mountain mushrooms at Zanjan University said: "The country does not pay attention to the added value of cultivating medicinal plants.
According to the Bazaar of Dana's Information Network, according to Nizami Zanjan, Mohammad Bagher Rezaei, chairman of the Union of Iranian Medicines Scientific Society, at the first national conference on biotechnology of herbs and mountain mushrooms at Zanjan University, said: "The country does not pay attention to the added value of cultivating medicinal plants. So only 500 types of medicinal plants are cultivated in Iran.
Referring to the benefits of medicinal herbs, he pointed out: in Iran and in different regions of the country, 500 plant species are cultivated.
He said that the climate of Iran is warm, dry, cold and mountainous, temperate and humid, warm and humid.
Rezaei said that the climate has a very high effect on the production of thunder-fungal mushrooms and produces this kind of high-priced fungus, adding that in Iran there are different species of medicinal plants that, with rain, also change their color and grow in molds. .
Referring to the role of bees in plant production, he noted: To produce 25 grams of honey, 400,000 honey bee meet 20 thousand flowers, and the bee has seven times the distance between the moon and the earth, which is about 380 thousand kilometers. Goes through
The chairman of the Iranian Medicines Association of Medicines Association said that starting from the beginning of the last year, herbal drug startups have started and is being held, he said: the first conference of startups in Shahrekord is being held and is under consideration for the product of saffron.
Rezaei emphasized that there are many problems in the study of pests and diseases of herbal medicines, said the creation of a pilot plant is also of great need. From the first international congress of Gol Mohammadi, he said: "This congress will be held until May of next year And jointly with Astan Quds Razavi and the Agricultural Research and Development Center.
Referring to the fact that after 100 years of tea and herbal tea conference in Iran, he said: promising talks have been given for the next year to be held internationally, because Iranian tea should be introduced to the world.