Summary of report: International Symposium on Chamomile Research, Development and Production

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International Symposium on Chamomile
Research, Development and Production

Presov, Slovak Republic 7-10 June 2006
A Travel Report presented to the Rural Industries R&D Corporation

by Dr Linda Falzari Junior Research Fellow University of Tasmania

January 2007

RIRDC Publication No 06/136 RIRDC Project No TA056-27

Executive Summary

Chamomile, (Matricaria recutita (L.) Rauschert) is a crop widely used as a dried herb infusion tea and steam-distilled to produce blue chamomile essential oil. A feasibility study, supported by RIRDC in 1999-2003 showed it to be a potential new crop for Tasmania. This current report presents the outcomes of attendance of the I. International Symposium on Chamomile Research, Development and Production, in Presov, Slovak Republic, 7 – 10 June 2006 and excursions to examine chamomile production and processing in the Presov area.

The symposium provided much scientific information on the history, pharmacology, breeding, agronomy and quality assurance of chamomile and its end-products. The proceedings of the conference will be published in an Acta Horticulturae.

Much of the detailed, practical information on chamomile production was collated from the postsymposium excursions. The descriptions of these cultural systems, along with the previously published research in the feasibility study, should provide sufficient basis for local growers to establish a chamomile crop in Tasmania.

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