MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS OF MARGINAL AREAS

Marginal agricultural lands; These are lands opened to agriculture due to local importance or local needs, other than absolute agricultural lands, special crop lands and planted agricultural lands. These lands have many soil and topographical limitations and their agricultural production potential is quite low. Land slope, rainfall; It is more than 8% in places where it is below 574 mm, and more than 12% in places where it is 574 mm or above, and the soil depth is less than 50 cm. Marginal lands have attracted widespread attention due to their potential to enhance food security and support bioenergy production. Marginal lands, which are often fragile, sensitive and at environmental risk, have low productivity and low economic returns. There are many factors limiting its usability in agricultural production.