Table 8.
Priority ranking of factors perceived as threats to medicinal plants
| Factors | Respondents (R1-R7) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | Total | % | Rank | |
| Agricultural expansion | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 26 | 17.8 | 1st |
| Charcoal and fire wood consumption | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 16.4 | 2nd |
| Grazing | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 15.8 | 3rd |
| Settlement | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 6th |
| Timber and construction | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 13.7 | 4th |
| Drought | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 11.6 | 5th |
| Total | 126 | |||||||||
Key: Values 1–4 were given: 1 is the least destructive threat and 4 is the most destructive threat.