THIS ebook gives general suggestions relative to the culture, harvesting, distillation, yield, marketing, and commercial products for drug plants.
Specific information is also given concerning the cultivation, handling, and yield of individual species and the demand and prices paid for the product. The market demand for many cultivated plant drugs is not large enough to justify growing them except as small minor crops. The haphazard production of crude drugs in small lots of a few pounds usually means a dissatisfied producer and consumer.
A special knowledge of trade requirements is necessary in collecting, curing, preserving, and packing drugs for market. Most farm products find a ready local market; a special market must be sought for plant drugs.
High prices for plant drugs do not insure large profits in producing them. Not the price received, but the difference between the cost of production and the selling price is the important point.
Specific information is also given concerning the cultivation, handling, and yield of individual species and the demand and prices paid for the product. The market demand for many cultivated plant drugs is not large enough to justify growing them except as small minor crops. The haphazard production of crude drugs in small lots of a few pounds usually means a dissatisfied producer and consumer.
A special knowledge of trade requirements is necessary in collecting, curing, preserving, and packing drugs for market. Most farm products find a ready local market; a special market must be sought for plant drugs.
High prices for plant drugs do not insure large profits in producing them. Not the price received, but the difference between the cost of production and the selling price is the important point.
