Housewife earns good money by producing calamansi extract
KANGAR: A deep interest in farming since she was small prompted a housewife in Kampung Santan near here to become an entrepreneur by planting limau kasturi or calamansi. Wan Mastura Megat who started cultivating the crop in 2016 said she now has 200 calamansi trees that are planted on a 0.4-hectare land. On the average, […]
Egypt’s blossoming trade in fragrant jasmine flowers
SHUBRA BELOULA, Egypt: At midnight, Eman Mehanna switches on her headlamp and begins her day’s work picking jasmine flowers, as their powerful fragrance wafts far across the fields in Egypt’s fertile Nile Delta. Egypt’s Gharbiya region is the heartland of its jasmine harvest. The aromatic oils extracted for perfumes from here make up over half […]
