Increased global temperatures or global warming which affects the change of season turned out to join the company threatened to herbs or herbal remedies. Availability of raw materials that had abundant herbal dwindling.

This was revealed by Mulyo Rahardjo, managing director of PT.Deltomed Laboratories. "Harvest cycle of chaos because of the changing seasons makes the supply of raw materials for herbal medicine are affected resulting in price fluctuations," he said during a visit to the factory Deltomed media in Wonogiri, Central Java, on Thursday (08.12.11) ago.

One is the rising price of ginger. "Usually we buy ginger a price of Rp 20,000, but ever since the harvest season changed the price soared to Rp 100,000," he explained.

Other than price, according to Mulyo which is also worrying is the availability of raw materials. Today is a plant that started rare earth peg (Eurycoma longifolia), which comes from Borneo.

"In recent years the supply of these plants continue to decline because many forests are cleared and replaced with palm oil," he added.

To get around this, PT.Deltomed which also produces brands Antangin herbal medicines or herbal cough medicine, is now actively working with farmers for seeding and planting herbs.

One way is to plant cashew cashew farmers in Wonogiri. "We encourage farmers to grow herbs in between cashew cashew crop. Instead of the land was idle and can not be planted with the others," he explained.

Deltomed yourself then buy the herbs are in dry form (simplicia). Some plants are routinely purchased Deltomed include turmeric, ginger, or bitter. Unfortunately, according to plant earth peg Mulyo rather difficult to be planted on the island of Java.

Until recently, added Mulyo, Deltomed still rely on local herbs. "About 95 percent of our herbal ingredients derived from ground water, the rest is imported, mainly for ginseng," he said.