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Group of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

The Group of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants is part of the Non Wood Forest Products Department of the Bioeconomy and Governance programme of the Forest Sciences and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC).

Its work is focused to the medicinal and aromatic plants (MAP), dealing with aspects related to cultivation, wild harvesting, postharvest transformation, commercialisation and market, within the frames of education, research, knowledge transfer and social promotion.

The Group of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants continues the work done by the ancient Forest Secondary Products Department (APSB) (1999-2012) that was created in 1997 from a European project  Life-Environment about organic cultivation of medicinal amb aromatic plants in the Pyrenees mountains.