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Training and development on conservation of medicinal plants

Some pictures of medicinal plants resources

Challenges and Opportunities
Challenges
 Vietnam has 54 ethnic groups: each group has different medicinal concept
and knowledge
 Number of people with local knowledge are diminishing, without new
successor
 People prefer to use modern medicine for effective treatment in a short time
 Resources of medicinal plants is getting exhausted by deforestation and
uncontrolled harvest
 Not enough attention to develop drug-growing areas
 The folk remedies lack scientific evidence and research