Study of Common Licorice (Glycyrrhiza Glabra) Reserves in Atyrau and Western-Kazakhstan Regions

Margarita Yu. Ishmuratova, Akzhunis A. Imanbayeva, Ainur T. Tuyakova and Gulzhamal B. Kopbaeva

Mangyshlak Experimental Botanical Garden 10^th Micro-region, Aktau 100000, Kazakhstan.

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/bbra/2286

ABSTRACT: The goal of the present work is to identify marketable thickets of common licorice (Glycyrrhiza Glabra) in the territory of Atyrau and West Kazakhstan regions (Western Kazakhstan) and estimation of the licorice raw reserves. Common licorice is a valuable drug plant used in medicine as an expectorant, anti-inflammatory and viral inactivating agent. Previously, the main places of harvesting licorice roots were located in the territory of Southern Kazakhstan. To expand information about raw reserves of liquorice roots, sand areas and river valleys of Western Kazakhstan were studied. Growth of licorice as part of the licorice-wormwood, sedge-forb meadow and grass-forb associations was noted on the territory of Atyrau and Western Kazakhstan regions. Common licorice raw reserves are identified in the area of 899.0 hectares, while exploitable volume is estimated at 5060.1 tons. The amount of possible annual collection of the air-dry licorice raw reaches 506.0 tons.

KEYWORDS: Common licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra); yielding capacity; raw reserves; underground organs; Atyrau Region; West Kazakhstan Region; herbs

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