Table 6 Major threatening factors of medicinal plants
Factors | Respondents (R) | Total | Rank | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | |||
Deforestation | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 31 | 1st |
Drought | 4 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 26 | 3rd |
Construction | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 4th |
Charcoaling | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 5th |
Agriculture expansion | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 28 | 2nd |
Over-exploitation | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 6th |