The Purdue program is designed to give natural products industry members a broad-based, intensive overview of new crop production, processing, and marketing.
Participants come from all over the world.
Those who complete the program receive four units of continuing education credit from Purdue University. The program was founded in 1993 to serve the growing number of producers, researchers, and marketers requesting training in the rapidly evolving botanicals industry. Roundtable, held in Capetown, South Africa from April 4-6, 2000. The Roundtable brought together African producers and processors, American and European wholesale herb buyers, and related government agencies in an effort to explore and promote the trade of sustainably produced natural products from Africa to the world marketplace. All of the countries involved see this as an important opportunity to go beyond commodity food crops into more specialized food products.