Health economics of medicinal plants in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari region (case study: investigation of yarrow plant )

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1 Department of Economics, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Agriculture, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The increasing use of plants in the use of chemical drugs and their raw use in traditional treatment topics has caused the demand for medicinal plants to increase drastically in the world and has caused different countries in the world to invest, plan cultivation and production. A lot of medicinal plants act and this factor has made it impossible to supply medicinal plants naturally. Therefore, many of these plants must be cultivated in large fields. Among these medicinal plants is the yarrow plant, whose economic cultivation has helped to improve the agricultural economy of different regions, and with its medicinal use, it grows the health economy of the regions and leads to the creation of employment and reduction of unemployment and economic growth in becomes the national level, and this made the present research to evaluate the economic cost benefit and examine the profitability of the cultivation of this medicinal plant in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari region. The results of the research show that: Secondly, the present value of the net income of the activity is 54 billion Rials. The profitability index of the benefit-cost ratio was estimated at 3.36, the present value of the net income of the activity was 77 billion Rials and the benefit-cost ratio index was calculated at 3.5 units. Therefore, according to the positive profitability index of the net present value and the benefit-cost ratio greater than one in different interest rates, doing this business is economical.

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Geography (Regional Planning)
Volume 13, Issue 51 - Serial Number 2
December 2023
Pages 366-380

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