What is Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Program?

Program Description: Biological, ecological, genetic and systematic properties of the Medicinal and Aromatic Plants that have economic value in the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and paint industry, culture, collection and protection from nature, chemical contents and analysis methods, supply, production and quality controls, use It is a program that trains auxiliary technical personnel who have basic knowledge and practice in their fields and ethics.

Aimed to Build Educated Manpower

The purpose of the Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Program; is to create trained manpower, which is of great importance in the collection, cultivation, production-processing, marketing and use of plants from nature.

To this end, students are taught to conserve gene resources and to cultivate them as field crops. For the pharmaceutical industry, it is aimed to determine the properties and effective substances of these plants and to increase the effective substances that give these plants therapeutic power.

In addition, students have the opportunity to use the theoretical knowledge they have acquired by making field practices in their regions. Students who know the plants according to their morphological characteristics and determine their properties, also learn to collect them from nature and make them to be stored under suitable conditions.