Table 10 Ranking exercise of threats to medicinal plants
Threats | Key informants | Total | Rank | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
k-1 | k-2 | k-3 | k-4 | k-5 | k-6 | k-7 | k-8 | k-9 | k-10 | |||
Agricultural land expansion | 7 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 56 | 1 st |
Fuel (charcoal and fuel wood) | 6 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 45 | 3rd |
Overgrazing | 5 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 48 | 2nd |
House construction | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 39 | 4 th |
Timber production | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 34 | 5 th |
Agrochemicals (herbicides and pesticides) | 4 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 30 | 6 th |
Drought | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 28 | 7 th |