Home-Made Homogenizer Used in Iran for Extracting Herbs in Remote Areas
“Since we are active in the field of producing and processing mushrooms and medicinal plants, the homogenizer device can be much more useful than other methods and can work with higher efficiency in the field of extracting effective and high-quality substances,” Sadeq Mahmoudi Hashemi, a representative of the creative company in the field of medicinal plants, told ANA.
Noting that the device has been made by researchers of an Iranian knowledge-based company, he said, “The device has wide applications in various fields and given the field of our activity, we want to use the homogenizer device for extraction of medicinal plants.”
Figures in April showed that Iran has exported more than $660 million worth of herbal medicines in recent years.
As a vast country with different climates, Iran is a suitable place for planting and growing different types of herbs, a report by the Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology says, adding that as statistics show currently, about 90% of medicinal herbs are grown inside the country.
Despite the fact that growing herbs can generate a lot of revenues for Iran, the country’s share of exports of these herbal medicines in the global market is not good at all.
Available official reports indicate that the value of exports of medicinal herbs and herbal medicines in 2012 was about $350 million while the figure has reached more than $ 660 million in recent years. The total value of exports excluding saffron is estimated to have reached at $370 million.
According to the report, the Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology’s Department for Development of Herbal Medicine and Traditional Medicine has made necessary planning to expand scientific and technological cooperation at the international level and provide more opportunities for exporting more herbal medicines to other countries.
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