Goals and tasks
1- Identification of medicinal plants and by products based on scientific principles; determine the distribution and their changes and displacement in the natural habitats.
2- Extraction and identification of the active ingredients of native and endemic medicinal and aromatic plants, in order to introduce valuable plants for harvesting from natural habitats and agronomy targets.
3-Domestication and cultivation of medicinal plants, aromatic and by products to reducing the exploitation of natural habitates and developing their cultivation, especially in arid and semi-arid regions, farms and poor lands.
4-Quantitative and qualitative monitoring of the status of medicinal plants, by products and their products in the country
5-Protecting and restoring endemics, rare, and extinct medicinal plants
6-Access to a variety of processing methods
7-Collaborating on the development of national and international standards for reproductive organs, herbs, active ingredients (essential oil and extract) and other products
8-Planing for the production of seed and reproductive organs of new species have been introduced and modified cultivars for the development of cultivation
9-Planning for the development of mechanization of medicinal plants
10-Transmission of findings and knowledge of medicinal plants at the in scientific community of the country by holding courses and workshops