'Medicines are the second most essential requisite after food for mankind. For medicines, medicinal plants are the important sources of raw drugs. Therefore, the demand on plant based therapeutics has increased many fold in both developing and developed countries due to the growing recognition that they are natural products, being non-narcotic, having no side effects, easily available at affordable prices. Due to hug demand of plant-based crude drugs throughout the world, today urgent need to domesticate or cultivate the medicinal plants in large scale to fulfill the unexpected demand. But due to lack of systematic information on cultivation of medicinal crops at one place, growers are not ready to adopt such practices in their agrosystem. Changing herbal market scenario rapidly and expanding local and global market and immense export potential to Europe, America and other Western Read more Table of Contents Contents Important Tips for Cultivation of Medicinal Plants; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Nursery Technology; Nursery management tips; Chapter 3: Biofertilizer; Manures, Biofetilizers, Biopesticides, Integrated Pest Management (IPM); Chapter 4: Organic Farming: An Approach for Sustainable Herbi-culture; Concept of organic farming, Needs of organic farming, Economic and market status, Organic market, Constraints and opportunities, Suggestion, Indian needs; Chapter 5: Agro-Techniques of Medicinal Plants; Chapter 6: Harvesting Technology and Value Addition of Medicinal Plants; Collection, Harvesting, Drying, Garbling (Dressing), Packing, Storage, Value-addition or Processing, Preservation, Active Constituents; Chapter 7: Adulteration and Substitution of Crude (Herbal) Drugs; Chapter 8: Market Potential (Export/Import) of Crude Drugs; Chapter 9: Standardization and Quality Control Read more About the Author/Editor Dr. Ravindra Sharma (born January 21, 1970) is presently President & Managing Director, GREEN FOUNDATION (For health care, social equity & biodiversity conservation), a reputed Non-Government Organisation (NGO), Dehradun. He has been actively associated in research and development (R&D) in the field of cultivation & domestication of medicinal herbs, Green Health Mission, ethnobotany and conservation biology. He has contributed more than 35 research papers, general articles in national and international journals of repute. He is the author of 3 popular books viz. Medicinal Plants of India: An Encyclopaedia ; Dictionary of Ayurveda; Aushdhiya evam sugandhiya Paudhuon ki Krishi Takniki (won second prize under Rajbhasa Puruskar Yojana (2002) sponsored by Defense Research & Development Organisation, Ministry of Defense, Government of India, New Delhi). He is the member of several societies concerned with botanical or environmental research and development . he has extensively traveled to the remote areas of Himalaya and has been devoted to record the traditional heritage knowledge of the folk people, beside his concern in the biodiversity and sustainable use of plant resources in the North-West Himalaya.