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Manufacturers and Raw Materials
• More than five hundred sixteen manufacturers (Unani 275, Ayurvedic 201 and

Herbal 40) are producing traditional medicine in Bangladesh.

• Many of the raw materials are plant origin and 70% derived from the rich
tropical flora of Bangladesh.
• Recently GOB has started a separate wing under the ‘Ministry of Environment

and Forest’ for the leasing land for medicinal plant plantation, cultivation,

promotion and research. Some NGOs are also doing the same work.

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