Aim & Objectives

The objectives of Bangladesh Herbal Products Manufacturing Association (BHPMA) are described below:

To establish a non-profit organization that will bring together and represent medicinal Plants of all types of herbal products and herbal medicine product industries to include. To protect, develop, support and promote all measures and steps toward growing, producing, processing, manufacturing and marketing at home and abroad of all in Bangladesh, and to coordinate the efforts of the members of the association to this end.

To promote contract growers and producers of herbal products of all types supplying to the medicine products industries.

To promote export of processed herbal products in all forms to include powder, tablate, Capsule, syrup dehydrated, canned, bottled or in any other form or container.

To work with the Government, the Parliament and the Ministries to solve problems and obtain fair and equitable laws regarding the herbal industries in Bangladesh and contract growers/producers of herbal products supporting the herbal medicine industries.

To make representation to the Government, public bodies, organizations and other authorities on behalf of the members of the association for the redress of their genuine grievances and for meeting the legitimate demands of members of the association.

To work with national and international research bodies for facilitating R & D work necessary for enhancing productivity and growth of the herbal sector and supporting contract growers of herbal products.

To collect and disseminate necessary information on herbal, contract farming and supporting industries among the members of the association.

To promote the highest standard of business ethics, integrity and professionalism and quality standard between and among the members of the association and others.

To serve as an arbitrator, and/or mediator, in solving problems and minor disputes, keeping in view at all times, the best interests of the association and its members, as well as the interests of the consumer and the country.

To promote, protect and safeguard the interests of all the members of the association directly or indirectly connected with the herbal sector in Bangladesh and connected contract growers of herbal products.

To promote and maintain the highest standard of unity and cooperation among the members of the Association in the conduct of business carried on by them.

To consider and deal with all questions and matters concerned the processing of herbal products, contract growing and to devise ways and means to overcome any difficulty or problem arising in connection therewith.

To develop, through product promotion, wider and new uses of herbal related products at home and abroad.

To discuss, promote and support all measures beneficial to herbal and contract growing and to oppose measures detrimental there to.

To promote and become members and/or associates of all national and international organizations and bodies directly or indirectly related to herbal and contract growing and enhancement and advancement or environment-friendly sustainable naturale.

To promote by all available means the manufacture and production of all types of herbal products items in the country.

To actively promote self-sufficiency in all types of herbal medicinal plants and production in the country.

To establish and promote contacts with foreign countries and international or foreign organizations, and develop relations with them in order to enhance the trade relation with the herbal products sector in the country.

To subscribe and become members of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry and to procure form and furnish to any organization of trade and industry in Bangladesh or foreign country such information as may be conducive to the attainment of the objectives of the association.

To obtain or develop informative books, brochures, visual aids and educational items for members and to distribute them on a pro-rata, non-profit no-loss basis.

To raise or borrow funds or secure the payment of money for promotion of the objectives of the association and for meeting its financial obligations and to charge the association’s property or assets.

To purchase, lease, exchange or otherwise acquire and to alter, improve, develop any land, buildings, houses, estates, farms, fittings and furniture or any other movable or immovable properties, licenses, rights or privileges, as deemed necessary or expedient for accomplishing the objectives of the Association.

To elect officers, appoint staff, agents, managers, secretaries, contractors and establish agencies and/or branches of the Association in any place within Bangladesh, whatsoever.

To accept any request, gifts, donation or subscription towards any fund or endowment and to establish and support institutions or trusts calculated to benefit the members of the association, its employees or ex-employees or their dependents, and to grant gratuities, pensions and allowances, and to subscribe, donate or grant money for the promotion of herbal sector in Bangladesh or for charitable or benevolent objects or for any public, general or useful objects or for any public, general or useful objects and for natural in general.

To bring suits and take legal actions, civil, criminal, revenue or otherwise, whether original or appellate, and to grant vokalatnamas authorizing legal practitioners to appear for and on behalf of the association before all courts, civil, criminal, revenue or otherwise.

To draw, make, accept, discount, execute and issue cheque, pay orders, promissory notes and other negotiable or transferable instruments.

To pay for services rendered or to be rendered in connection with formation and registration of the association or for furtherance of its objectives.

To represent and act for the members of the association before all ministries, departments or agencies of the government and before all types of public and private, national and international organizations and agencies whose activities affect the manufacture, distribution, transportation, trade and use of herbal products and to nominate its representative(s) for such organizations, if required.

To contribute to the progress and advancement in every lawful manner and do all lawful acts to promote the welfare of the members of the association.

To act as advisors and mediators in all such matters pertaining thereto as may from time to time arise between the members of the association and to arbitrate in the settlement of disputes between such members who solicit such arbitration.

To import goods, materials and other requirements of the members of the association for the purpose of experiment, investigation and research but not for any commercial purpose.

To promote export of natural produces of the country to achieve sustainable commercially-viable herbal production.

To promote, sponsor and encourage all type of assistance to the farmers and medicinal plants for promotion of herbal production and trade and industry in general.

And generally to do all such acts and things as may be necessary from time to time in connection with the affairs of the association or for the attainment of the above objectives of any of them.