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Money Making Cactus

The arid planes of Morocco have now turned into money making planes of Morocco all due to the cactus that live there! The fruit that grow on the cactus have always been used by the locals who went to pick the cactus fruit to eat, These same peole are still picking the cactus fruits but no longer are they foraging for the fruit but they are collecting them for the french cosmetics industry.

The French cosmetics company are keeping quiet ovr what they do to it to get the benefits but it is believed that the oils that are extracted from the fruit can help fight high blood pressure and also cancer. As well as this they say the oils also go into anti ageing creams.

Other European countries have been putting research into the fruits as they believe there may be a connection with the oils from the cactus fruit and slimming.

This is great news for the people who live in the area. The people work along side the co-op and all the locals have their own section of land in which they are farming the cactus. The other good news for the local people is that because they are part of the co-op they have a better chance of getting a fair price and wage for their work. Plans are being put in place to be able to produce on a manufacturing scale as if all the cosmetic companies in the world start to want these fruit then there will be a lot of work for a long time to come. Lets hope they can keep their land and they dont get pushed out by greedy organisations to get them cheaper.