Uganda: Aloe Vera Farmers Eye Japan And Korea Markets

Members of the Uganda Commercial Aloe Vera Farmers Association are to start exporting processed Aloe Vera products to Japan and Korea. The Director of Uganda Commercial Aloe Vera Farmers Association, Hajji Ali Sessanga told journalists on April 4, that the association had secured $600,000 (Shs1.5b), from a foreign lender to purchase a machine that would process Aloe Vera into various products for export and local consumption. The Aloe Vera plant contains a number of health benefits and has been used for medicinal purposes around the world for more than 3,500 years.

A vast research has been done on Aloe Vera and proved that the plant is very effective and significant in the treatment of various ailments and skin disorders, as well as making cosmetics.

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