Researcher Margarita Naming with the Pahkak fruits and samples of soaps. Photo by ZULAZHAR SHEBLEE
KUCHING: Sarawak Biodiversity Centre (SBC) is well on its way to commercialise LitSara, the trademarked name of an essential oil derived from a plant known to the Bidayuh community as “Pahkak”.
It is one of the first products being marketed internationally by SBC from its traditional knowledge documentation programme.
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