From: Ethnobotanical perspective of antimalarial plants: traditional knowledge based study
Location | Total interviewees (M/F) | Occupation | Literacya (M/F) | Mean ageb (years) | Monthly incomec,d (INR)e | |
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Agri | Non-agri | |||||
Gorakhpur | 22 (18/4) | 74 % | 26 % | 74.5 (79/54) % | 52.7 | 4915.0 |
Kushinagar | 38 (27/11) | 78 % | 22 % | 63.7 (68/53) % | 55.0 | 3887.0 |
Maharajganj | 35 (28/7) | 82 % | 18 % | 67.2 (72/48) % | 48.4 | 4093.0 |
Totalf | 85 (63/22) | 78 % | 22 % | 68.5 (73/52) % | 52.0 | 4298.3 |
Details of plants | ||||||
Surveyed plants | 51 | |||||
Most commonly used plants | 3 | |||||
Number of families of surveyed plants | 27 | |||||
Number of families with two or more plants | 12 | |||||
Major plant families | ||||||
Fabaceae | 7 | |||||
Asteraceae | 4 | |||||
Acanthaceae | 4 | |||||
Amaranthaceae | 4 | |||||
Menispermaceae | 3 | |||||
Most popular plants (With PK ≥ 55 %) | ||||||
Adhatoda vasica Nees | ||||||
Cassia fistula Linn. | ||||||
Swertia chirata Buch.Ham | ||||||
Geographical profileg | ||||||
Average annual rainfall | 1148.3 mm | |||||
Average relative humidity | 68.33 % | |||||
Average high temperature | 30.92 °C | |||||
Average low temperature | 19.58 °C | |||||
Average Mean Temperature | 25.25 °C | |||||
Average no of days with precipitation | 44.88 | |||||
Frequency of usage of traditional knowledge | Yes (%) | No (%) | ||||
70 (82 %) | 15 (18 %) |