• 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