Lao Cai: 13 medicinal plants meet good practice standards for growing and harvesting medicinal plants

Including 50 hectares of artichoke in Sa Pa town; 20,100 hectares of tea in Sa Pa and Bat Xat towns; 19.7 hectares of Platycodon grandiflorum in Bac Ha district; 30 hectares of wild mugwort in Sa Pa town...

Sa Pa farmers are successful in growing medicinal artichokes.

Platycodon grandiflorum is a medicinal herb found in many oriental medicine prescriptions.

Applying and achieving GACP-WHO certification brings many benefits to both businesses and society. Some basic benefits include: Proactively sourcing medicinal materials; avoiding legal issues; minimizing risks that may arise; controlling the quality of medicinal materials; preserving Vietnam's precious medicinal materials; contributing to solving social security issues; accessing many potential markets and easily identifying and tracing the origin of medicinal materials.

Lao Cai province encourages individuals and organizations to develop medicinal herb growing areas and traditional medicine production in combination with tourism, ensuring both the supply of medicinal herbs and traditional medicine products for medical examination and treatment, and serving tourists to visit and shop for high-quality medicinal herbs and traditional medicine products.

Lao Cai province encourages individuals and organizations to develop medicinal plant growing areas.

Localities identify medicinal plants suitable for the climate and soil to focus on development, form concentrated production areas, form production and processing chains associated with the consumption of medicinal products; organize research and development of medicinal plant cultivation under forest canopy combined with eco-tourism in accordance with current regulations.

Source: https://baolaocai.vn/lao-cai-13-loai-cay-duoc-lieu-dat-cac-tieu-chuan-thuc-hanh-tot-trong-trot-va-thu-hai-cay-thuoc-post399422.html