Article 756 (5 more) in bionet.plants:
From: richter@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (C. Richter)
Subject: Re: Medicinal plants to grow???
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 20:21:21 GMT

>I have a friend that is moving to Costa Rica.  He has grown ornamental
>plants for many years but would like to try and grow plants that could
>be used for medicinal purposes.  He would like to know where to get help.
>His questions include: what types of plants should he grow now and which
>ones are in demand?
>He has the ability to grow many different species but he wuld like any
>information on the culture of digitalis and others.

Unfortunately, there is no one source for detailed cultural information for 
medicinal crops, but we may be able to provide some.  As a start, we 
recommend two books which deal with commercial cultivation and marketing.  
They certainly not exhaustive or even very up-to-date, but they do help to 
get the prospective grower oriented on relevant production and marketing 
issues.  The books are: 

     _Culinary & Medicinal Herbs_ put out by the British Ministry of 
      Agriculture, softcover, 70 pp.  Available from us at $16 (Canadian 
      funds, plus postage and handling) 
and 
     _The Potential of Herbs as a Cash Crop_ by Richard Miller, softcover, 
      230 pp.  $24 from us. 

After your friend has studied these, we can provide more detailed information 
from our extensive data file.  

Conrad Richter 
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Conrad Richter                     richter@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca
Richters Herbs                     71550.3411@compuserve.com
Goodwood, ON L0C 1AO Canada        Tel 416-640-6677 / Fax 416-640-6641

