Rural farmers cash in on lucrative essential oils industry

Project’s initiators want more communities to get on board as markets open up in US and Netherlands

The essential oils industry is opening international markets for farmers in the rural Eastern Cape.

On the back of successful exports to the Indian market, small-scale farmers who were growing cabbage at Keiskamma Valley are now turning their attention to the US and Netherlands for their produce...

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