Ecological cultivation of medicinal plants

More than 3,5 billion people are using plants for their primary health care and their cultivation is an obvious use (Balick and Alan Cox, 1997, Van Seters, 1997) for both personal use and local markets. Moreover, in the particular case of Prunus africana, which is a very high value medicinal tree, its domestication allows farmers to plant on their farm and so increase their incomes through selling of barks while diversify the crops. (Cunningham, A.B.; Mbenkum, F.T., 1993)

 In Boyo division, numerous traditional healers are actively involved in public health activities and consumption of medicinal plants is high. According to the Rapport sur la pauvreté rurale au Cameroun, 2006, 24,2% of  poor people in the North West Province are using traditional medicine because they cannot afford modern medicines.

Why ecological medicinal plants cultivation?: This will lead farmers to improve medicinal plant production in their garden with the use of organic manure, restore the fertility of the soil thanks to agroforestry technique integration. The medicinal plants can serve  households needs and also could be sold to traditional healers and others.

GENERAL OBJECTIVES:
Promote the ecological cultivation of medicinal plants

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

· Identification of indigenous, endemic medicinal plants species

· Collection of germplasm and multiplication

· Train farmers on cultivation, transformation, conservation and consumption practices

Support establishment of medicinal plants gardens

 

 

Twantoh Mixed Farming Common Initiative group                            

Motto: sharing trees and plants that serve life

 

 

Training programs

 

· Tree domestication

· Bee farming

· Medicinal plants

· Group dynamics

· Market/consultancy

 

 

 

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