Kompas.com - Increased global temperatures or global warming which affects the change of season turned out to join the company threatened to herbs or herbal medicine. Availability of raw materials abundant herbs are used more and more depleted.
This was revealed by Mulyo Rahardjo, managing director PT.Deltomed Laboratories. "Harvest cycle of chaos due to the change of seasons makes the supply of raw materials for herbal medicine are affected resulting in price fluctuations," he said when receiving a media visit to the factory Deltomed in Wonogiri, Central Java, on Thursday (08.12.11) ago.
One is the rising price of ginger. "Usually we buy ginger a price of Rp 20,000, but ever since the harvest season changed the price soared to Rp 100,000," he explained.
Other than price, according Mulyo also worrying is the availability of raw materials. Currently the starting rare earth are plants wedge (Eurycoma longifolia), which comes from Borneo.
"In recent years the supply of these plants continue to decline as many forests are cut down and replaced with palm oil," he added.
To get around this, PT.Deltomed which also produces brands Antangin or herbal remedies Herbal Cough, is now actively working with farmers for breeding and planting herbs.
One way is to plant cashew cashew farmers in Wonogiri. "We encourage farmers to grow herbs in the plant cashew cashews. Instead of idle land and planted the other can not," he explained.
Deltomed yourself then buy the herbs are in dry form (simplicia). Some plants that are routinely purchased Deltomed include turmeric, ginger, or bitter. Unfortunately, according to plant the earth peg Mulyo rather difficult to be planted on the island of Java.
Until recently, added Mulyo, Deltomed still rely on local herbs. "About 95 percent of our herbal ingredients derived from ground water, the rest is imported, mainly for ginseng," he said.
Kompas.com
Thursday 8 March 2012
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