Comments on: Artemisia, China and EA

By: robert ngugi

robert ngugi — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:27:17 +0000

I am grand to learn about this wonderful plant that can creat job,bring income and cure/control malaria epidemic that has dislodged our courtry young academicians through it.
Am an entreprenuer who wish to plant the artemisia and lodge a campegin to many locals to do the same.I focus to produce 10 ton per month in the next 6month.
Where can i buy the seeds in kenya?

By: Investment information

Investment information — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:43:11 +0000

Investment information…

Of course, the third resource I use to get investment data for analysis is from other freely available websites. I would actually prefer to use these free resources, however the fact that not one website contains all the data I need makes it difficult….

By: CARANDA

CARANDA — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:42:59 +0000

SO WHAT DO WE DO AS AFRICANS ABOUT THE AFTER TED TZ CONF.

By: Lisa Amenya

Lisa Amenya — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:32:12 +0000

African Artemisia Limited (AAL) is the pioneer of Artemisia annua cultivation in East Africa. Initial trials began in1994 and large scale cultivation in 2004.

With USAID funding, Technoserve (TNS) became involved in Artemisia annua in 2005. In 2005 and 2006, TNS provided limited support to AAL and its sister company in Kenya, East African Botanicals. Because of limited funding, TNS is no longer directly involved in the project. The nursery that you visited in Tanzania is an AAL nursery. The farmer that you spoke with is contracted by AAL to grow Artemisia annua.

AAL is owned by Advanced Bio-Extracts Limited (ABE). ABE owns four companies in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, all involved in the production of artemisinin (artemisinin is the extract from Artemisia annua used to make the malaria treatments). ABE is the largest producer of artemisinin outside of China and Vietnam. In response to your query on whether the malaria treatments can be made in Africa, it is planned that in Q1 2008 ABE will begin supplying artemisinin derivatives to pharmaceutical companies in Africa for local production of artemisinin-based malaria treatments.

To learn more about Artemisia annua cultivation or artemisinin production in East Africa, please visit http://www.abextracts.com or e-mail info@abextracts.com.