CAPE TOWN - A group of residents from Seymour in the Eastern Cape are tapping into the cosmetic benefits of aloe ferox as they develop market-ready skincare products.
Agro-processing refers to the manufacturing sector that processes raw materials from the agriculture sector.Council of Scientific and Industrial Research senior researcher, Phateka Ndzotoyi, explained that they collected the plant material and processed it at their Pretoria-based campus. Nothando Mathe, portfolio manager for the Technology Innovation Agency's agriculture bioeconomy innovation partnership programme, said that these small businesses attached to the project opted to develop these products as part of their business endeavours.