| Budget Amount *help |
¥16,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥12,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,870,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Farmers in Gujarat, India, are shifting from wild collection to cultivation of medicinal plants (MPs). The impact of cultivation on improving household income and the conditions for its spread in non-competitive, disadvantaged lands were elucidated.
Farmers in forest neighborhoods use various wild plants for food and medicine, but rely heavily on forest extraction, and thus their cultivation is urgently needed. The 7 representative MPs are found to require moderate soil fertility and drainage, and thus soil fertility maintenance design is important in diffusion project. For the adoption of MPs cultivation, farmers’ literacy, mobile phone ownership, and knowledge of MPs were important, and thus the role of traditional healers with botanical knowledge was closed up. Small-scale MPs cultivation had beneficial effects such as increasing total household income and reducing the number of wage working days. These information is useful for the further diffusion of the MPs cultivation.
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