Coimbatore, April 25 (PTI): Indian neem can emerge as the biggest money spinner in the booming alternative therapy market, if the country framed policies and encouraged its use in public health programmes on time, a top official of Neem Foundation said Tuesday.

Tea tree of Australia, Gingko Biloba of China, Ginseng of Korea, Guarana of the Amazon and Aloe Vera of Mexico were huge money spinners in the West and Indian neem can become the biggest player of them all, according to Pramila Thakkar, Managing Trustee of Mumbai-based Foundation.

Appropriate use of neem, through village-based enterprises as also through the state-of-the-art technologies was needed, Pramila told reporters.