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Question
What are the advantages of cultivation of aromatic plants?
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Solution
Cultivation of medicinal/aromatic plants offers following advantages:
- Generate employment through the development of ancillary industries.
- Foreign exchange earnings through exports.
- Crops are not damaged by domestic animals or by birds.
- Technologies are a farmer and eco-friendly.
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