Monday, April 13, 2009

Sweet Cactus

Spore reports:
The arrival in 2000 of Chinese remedies and cosmetic products based on Aloe vera set agronomists and biologists thinking in the Béni region of eastern DR Congo. "We saw that most of the products were based on Aloe vera, a plant that grows well here", explained Kato Ndako, a chemist and pharmacist from Beni. "Since then, we have been encouraging farmers to grow more of it, before starting to process it"...[continue reading]

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