Jojoba farmers turn ‘disastrous’ crop into golden opportunity in skincare market | ABC Australia
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Over-hyped and a spectacular failure in the 1980s, jojoba is now becoming a success story.
The Jojoba Company, which makes a popular skincare brand, invested in the seed when few farmers were willing to give it a second chance.
But as Landline's Kerry Staight reports, it's tricky to grow and the Australian industry is still establishing
itself.
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The lack of public research is a policy choice. The government is much larger with a bigger tax base than 1997. It just reflects the defunding of R&D by successive governments
There was a time I used shampoo with jojoba oil to reduce hair fall. It seems that it worked quite well.
Would it grow in the tropics?
Given that they have turned the entire farm over to a single crop, there is clearly money in it. However that does carry a huge risk, in that if there is a particularly bad season, then there is no income in that year. A few bad seasons in a row would be disastrous. Admittedly some of that risk is mitigated by them producing their own value added range that obviously sells year round and evens out the cash flow.
Yup, if farmers grew crops in diverse mixes. Mixes up pests plus supports native insects, soil biodiversity etc. Also allows permanent bees rather than migratory hives just for seasonal pollination. Long term I think diversity long term supports the economy and ecosystem.
Excellent report. Good to see a successful operation.
Very interesting look at what's possible with the domestication of novel wild plant species. It has clearly taken a whole bunch of people with diverse skills and interests to build the large operations they have running.
I didn't think it's pronounced hohoba, lol. I thought it's jojoba.
It is hohoba, James.
Given its native to the southern desert of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and northern Mexico, I would say that the name JoJoba is a Spanish expression of a Native American word. Jes are often pronounced as H’s in Spanish.
Jojoba is a Spanish word and the J is silent. Example the Spanish name José is pronounced Hosé
So Jojoba is pronounced Ho-Ho-ba.
Hope that helps.
@@Angie-in8wc it's not really silent. It's pronounced like the 'ch' in German, such as 'hoch' or J.S. Bach. It's a letter sound that doesn't have an analog in English.
@@rmar127 My last name is Spanish, so I understand the J as H, just that I assume Americans would sound J, as J, not as H.
I have family in the US, in Arizona, there, the Apache, men, women and children, make some nice money on a “side gig” picking wild jojoba! They know the desert and make it a family affair going to their secret spots.
Jojoba Hairoil in HairGels is Better.
Nice to see this example of resourcefulness.
NatGeo specifically featured Jojoba back in the 80s, no hint that it was such a frail species. Is it something about the monocropping that makes healthy species from nature have trouble surviving?
comment ghosted ??? hmmmm
Is this similar to ginko jojoba
You are thinking of the plant “Ginko Biloba” that’s completely different to Jojoba
Ginko Biloba is a completely different plant and unrelated Jojoba.