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Sunday 21 April 2013

Bitter Kola Another Money Magnet In Nigeria



BITTER KOLA (AKILU) FOR EXPORT.
Bitter Kola otherwise known as garcinia kola is a highly sought after product in the international market. Countries like China, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, and many other Asian countries.
It is exported in different forms; Wet Dried or Powdered The form you export it depends on the specification of the buyer.

It cannot be exported through the sea because of its nature. It is assumed that it may lose its color and even be dried up before getting to its destination, should you try to export it via the sea. The basic mode of exporting   bitter kola is via air cargo, i.e. through airplanes. It is assumed that it will get to the destination in less than 4 days. This ensures that the product doesn’t spend much time in transit thereby resulting in the loss of quality and content. You can export as little as 150kg as a trial order.
The cost of per kg of bitter Kola in the international Market is between $19-$25 today. The local Cost of Bitter Kola per kg is between N200-N250 Naira. While the price locally is betweenN50 and N70.
Bitter Kola can be found in large quantities in South, East and western states of Nigeria. Nigeria is one of the highest producers of bitter Kola in Nigeria.

Is bitter kola Medicinal:
Bitter kola is a medium sized forest tree found throughout West and Central Africa. The seed, also known as “Akilu” is eaten as refreshment in the Eastern (Igbo) part of Nigeria as a cure for general aches in the head, back, etc., and also as a de-wormer. Igbo medicine men prescribe the fruit for arthritic conditions.
Mastication of bitter kola relieves coughs, hoarseness, bronchial and throat troubles. It is said to be a remedy for dysentery, osteoarthritis, antidote against poisoning and considered aphrodisiac.
Considerable experimental evidence has been adduced to support its chemical constituents against several ailments in the community, including malaria.
“We extracted its chemical constituents, which is called Kolaviron and when it was tested on malaria parasite, we found it had significant anti-malarial activity,” says Professor Olusegun Ademowo, a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Medical Research and Training, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, South West of Nigeria.
 “What we are now trying to find out is the right dosage of its extract that would be required in treating malaria. Also, we are looking at what other effects its use will have on the human cells. But at the moment it is in the preliminary stage.”
No doubt, traditional healers had been prescribing bitter kola for the treatment of malaria. Researchers, who reported that bitter kola had anti-malaria effect in the 2010 issue of Journal of Medicinal Plants Research, from a survey of plants used by traditional healers in the Democratic Republic of Congo attributed this to its quinones content.

In 1999, a group of researchers in Kinshasa, Congo, attested to why people should consider feeding more on bitter kola to ward of malaria. Under laboratory conditions, they found that extracts from bark, stem and seed of bitter kola tree inhibit the growth of malaria parasite (Plasmodium falciparum) by at least 60% at a low concentration of 6 mg/ml.

Interestingly, Nigerian researchers have also developed herbal cures for malaria that can take care of resistant strains from a cocktail from local plants that includes bitter kola.
A typical cocktail developed by a plant taxonomist at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) and Ebonyi State University, South- east of Nigeria, Professor Jonathan Okafor, consists of Morinda lucida (commonly called local cinchona or Brimstone tree.), Nauclea latifolia, lemon grass, male pawpaw leaves, Moringa oleifera (drumstick tree), mango bark, bitter kola and guava leaves and bark.
Obierofu claimed that he has successfully used the concoction for the last 18 years to treat malaria and hopes to start producing it in commercial quantities.
So when another Oluye  by, remember to patronize her because eating bitter kola is medicinal and can save you from the deleterious effects of malaria. Akilu can save you equally from snake attack. You may wish to hear from us how to pant and harvest Akilu in our next lecture. 

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