Introduction to the Precision Medicinal Plant Production

Abstract

Precision site specific plant production technologies are becoming more and more widespread in countries with developed agriculture. It is not surprising that in the field of medicinal crop production the need of applying precision methods arising, too. The use of this new technique and technology can only be successful if it serves sustainable production and is used for the purpose of ecological conservation. Interestingly enough, this latter area is more advanced in the field of annual and perennial forest herbs as well as in description of interplant competition than in up-to-date (precision) plant production technologies. A number of new methods of how to use remote sensing in ecological research can be learned from medicinal herbs sciences. The chapter describes the possibilities of use of precision crop production technologies in the cultivation and hand harvesting of medicinal plants.