What is Economic Botany?

It is the branch of botany that deals with the plants for human welfare. The economic is not be interpreted necessarily in placing emphasis on a monetary sense but concerned with the use of plants by the people.

According to Wickens (2001) “Economic botany is the study of plants, fungi, algae and bacteria that directly or indirectly positively or adversely affect man, his livestock and the maintenance of the domestic commercial, environmental or purely aesthetic, their use may belong to the past, the present or the future.”