Table 15 Priority ranking results of seven respondents on six factors perceived as threats to medicinal plants
Threatening factor | Respondents (R1- R7) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | R 1 | R 2 | R 3 | R 4 | R 5 | R 6 | R 7 | Total | Rank |
Agricultural expansion | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 38 | 1st |
Overgrazing | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 32 | 3rd |
Drought | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 5th |
Fuelwood collection | 6 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 33 | 2nd |
Construction and building material | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 6th |
Urbanization/Modernization | 4 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 29 | 4th |