Table 1 Definition of participants within the herbal market trade scheme. Types of collectors and their role within the trade as defined by the Madagascar government
From: Medicinal plants sold in the markets of Antananarivo, Madagascar
Operators | Persons who legally hold a license or an operating agreement to operate and collect medicinal plants and forest products to sell or use as raw materials. |
Collectors | These are individuals who collect plants from those who harvest in the forest. They are authorized to carry out the grouping of plants with several collectors. |
Harvesters | These are the persons authorized to conduct harvesting or gathering medicinal plants for commercial purposes |
Rural harvesters | Those who come from the rural areas surrounding the city of Antananarivo to deliver medicinal species to the market sellers |
Urban harvesters | people living in the vicinity of the capital, which also make deliveries to vendors of medicinal plants in the traditional market of Antananarivo |
Public resellers (vendors) | These are the people who sell plants to the public. Called "tapa-mpivarotra kazo" or "mpivarotra raokandro” in Malagasy. |