{"id":32843,"date":"2026-06-01T11:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=32843"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:02:43","slug":"herbal-medicine-sector-theres-a-usd200m-annual-loss-due-to-imported-raw-materials-paam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=32843","title":{"rendered":"Herbal medicine sector: There\u2019s a USD200m annual loss due to imported raw materials: PAAM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=brecorder.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><strong>The Pakistan Association of Alternative Medicine (PAAM) has highlighted a critical economic drain in the country\u2019s herbal medicine sector, estimating an annual loss of USD200 million due to a heavy reliance on imported raw materials.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to PAAM\u2019s latest data, Pakistan\u2019s herbal industry currently holds less than a 0.5pc share in the global market, which has surpassed USD200 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the country being home to over 6,000 types of medicinal herbs, the industry remains dependent on imports, initially from India and now primarily from China, while a lack of institutional support, timely harvesting, and proper processing facilities leads to the wastage of raw material worth USD100 million annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In contrast, India\u2019s focused efforts through the \u2018AYUSH\u2019 ministry, established in 2014, have helped boost their herbal exports to USD15 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PAAM President Kashif Aslam Malik termed the current export model based on processing imported Chinese raw materials\u2014as \u2018artificial growth\u2019, emphasizing that true economic sustainability will only be achieved when Pakistan utilizes its own land to cultivate and process herbs, branding them as \u2018Made in Pakistan\u2019 using modern technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reference Link:- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brecorder.com\/news\/40423354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.brecorder.com\/news\/40423354<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Association of Alternative Medicine (PAAM) has highlighted a critical economic drain in the country\u2019s herbal medicine sector, estimating an annual loss of USD200 million due to a heavy reliance on imported raw materials. According to PAAM\u2019s latest data, Pakistan\u2019s herbal industry currently holds less than a 0.5pc share in the global market, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[28046,10984,26376,29844,29845,483,29846],"class_list":["post-32843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-alternate-medicines","tag-health-care-2","tag-herbal-medicines-2","tag-natural-herbs","tag-no-chemical","tag-pakistan-2","tag-raw-material-2","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32845,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32843\/revisions\/32845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}