Zakiye Dastoori; Mohammad Farzam
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Ferula foetida is one of the important medicinal plants in the steppe rangelands of Iran. Applying effective methods for its establishment can be useful for reviving the ecosystems of arid areas and the economy of its indigenous people. Due to the fact that drought stress is one of the main limitations ...
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Ferula foetida is one of the important medicinal plants in the steppe rangelands of Iran. Applying effective methods for its establishment can be useful for reviving the ecosystems of arid areas and the economy of its indigenous people. Due to the fact that drought stress is one of the main limitations in the establishment of plants in arid and semi-arid regions, in this study the effects of various treatments were studied on seed germination and establishment of Ferula foetida seedlings, in the Kakhk Twin Watersheds, located in the south of Khorasan Razavi province, Gonabad city. Experiment included some soil moisture conservation treatments (stone shelter, superabsorbent, superabsorbent + stone shelter or control) and seed treatments (prechilling or control), with 30 replicates for each treatment. Superabsorbent + sand shelters and sand shelters alone, reduced temperature and increased soil moisture. Moisture conservation treatments led to higher number of seedling emergence and survival and higher seedling height than those of control. Among the moisture conservation treatments, superabsorbent + stone shelter performed better, especially for the prechilled seedlings. According to the our results, superabsorbents and stone shelters can improve the production and productivity of Ferula foetida, especially during the drought times. We also suggest prechilling treatments to overcome the dormancy of Ferula foetida seeds.
elham fakhimi; Javad Motamedi; Zeinab Gholipour; Ezat allah Soleimani; Shahbaz Shamsoddini
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Knowledge of medicinal plants and economic evaluation of their use is one of the basic requirements for the preparation of multi-purpose rangeland plans. The aim of this study was to estimate the economic indicators of the use of medicinal plants used in Aliabad Mosiri summer rangeland, located in Koohrang ...
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Knowledge of medicinal plants and economic evaluation of their use is one of the basic requirements for the preparation of multi-purpose rangeland plans. The aim of this study was to estimate the economic indicators of the use of medicinal plants used in Aliabad Mosiri summer rangeland, located in Koohrang Bakhtiari. For this purpose, in the years 2018 to 2020, while sampling the vegetation and measuring the amount of organ production used by medicinal plants and the amount of forage of grazing species, economic indicators were calculated according to the collected data. According to the results, gross income from the use of medicinal plants includes; Shallots (Allium hirtifolium), Allium jesdianum, Allium ampeloprasu, Mentha longifolia and Thymus daenensis, in a harvest period, was estimated at 1139.463974 million Rials per hectare. From the deduction of overt and covert operating costs, the economic rent resulting from the sale of medicinal plants, 40,0342,242 million Rials per hectare per year was obtained. The expected value of each hectare of rangelands in the region from the place of exploitation of medicinal plants, taking into account the discount rate of 5.4 percent in September 2020, 71.74547 million Rials per hectare and from the place of forage for grazing livestock, 1.130050 million rials per hectare. It was estimated that the share of medicinal plants in the total expected value is 87%. .Also, the annual employment of medicinal plants in the 300-hectare area of distribution of medicinal plants, three people per year, was calculated
