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This hand book provides base-line informations on documentation of the inventory of medicinal, economic and aromatic plants for the socio-economic development, current status its trade, linkages in the market chain starting from collectors to consumers. Also suggestion for new avenues -harvesting, processing and trading of different forest resources in manners that can enhances sustainability and economic attractiveness of different medicinal and aromatic plants in northern Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa (Swat valley), Pakistan. The book will certainly helpful for the graduate, post-graduacte students, pharmacologist and researchers as useful guideline in their respective fields.

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