The multi-million dollars underground aloe trade is to be formalised, following the establishment of farming and trade licensing guidelines by the Kenya Wildlife Service. 肯尼亚地下芦荟交易可能在KWS(肯尼亚野生动植物服务局)监管下合法进行。
Trade in aloes has for decades been restricted in Kenya for lack of a legal framework. However, due to the black market, it has been thriving for decades complete with its own chain of producers, middlemen, transporters and exporters, but who disguise their products as natural gum. 数十年以来，由于立法的缺失，肯尼亚芦荟交易一直处于非法状态，整个芦荟业产业链，包括农民、中间商、运输商和出口商都惶惶不可终日。
Kenyan aloe species, Aloe Secundiflora and Aloe Turkanensis do not feature anywhere in the major brand names in the global cosmetics industry currently dominated by Aloe Vera, Aloe Ferox and Aloe Barbadnesis. 肯尼亚芦荟品种丰富，其中Secundifora 和 Turkanesis品种芦荟占据了国际化妆品市场的主导地位，其他畅销品种还有 Aloe Ferox 和Aloe Barbadnesis芦荟。
"Although the Aloe Vera based gums have traditionally been sold as having a higher content of the active ingredient, aloin, studies have shown the Kenyan species have comparable content of the substance. The Kenyan gums also have higher contents of other ingredients used in the industry. 芦荟浸膏的主要有效活性成分是芦荟苷，英文名称为Aloin，Barbaloin，又称为芦荟素、芦荟大黄素甙芦荟甙。 肯尼亚芦荟品种所含芦荟苷成分远高于行业平均含量。
Most of the informal exports of Kenyan aloes, estimated at 500 tonnes a year, end up in South Africa where it is re-packaged and re-exported to Europe, Asia and North America," says Kenya Forestry Research Institute's head of the Biospecting and Intellectual property Coordinator, Mr Kavaka Watai. 肯尼亚森林管理局官员KAVAKA WATAI先生说，肯尼亚大约每年出口芦荟500吨，排在南非之后，主要出口市场是欧洲、亚洲和北美。
Interest generated by the formalisation of the trade is seeing investments in commercial farming and propagation of the plant across the country coming up. 一旦芦荟膏出口合法化，整个肯尼亚芦荟产业都会受益，商业化种植和加工会吸引更多投资。
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