- Procurement of plant samples including plant identifications papers
- Domestication of wild plants
- Strategic procurement of herbal raw materials (controlled wild collection vs. controlled cultivation)
- Development of cultivation and crop technologies
- Selection of plants based on pharmacological and phytochemical studies
- Propagation of plants (in-vitro and in-vivo propagation)
- European plant variety rights
- Optimisation of post-harvest processing (drying, cutting, grinding etc.)
- Advice concerning cultivation and procurement