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manner without considering sustainability and quality issues. As a consequence,
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concern for herbal/pharmaceutical/nutraceutical/cosmeceutical industries and
the public alike. Moreover, medicinal plant collectors are not getting remunerative
value for their produce because of poor quality (due to wrong identification,
immature collection, poor processing, inadequate storage, adulteration etc.).
Good collection/harvesting practices of some important medicinal plants i.e.,
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