An employee empties a trough of baobab seeds on a table inside the factory of the Baobab Fruit Company Senegal in Thies, Senegal June 22, 2018. REUTERS/Mikal McAllister
Mangoule, SENEGAL, (Reuters) - Taerou Dieuhiou has been shinning barefoot up baobab trees in Senegal's southern Casamance region to collect the oblong fruit since he was 15.
Business has never been better. Inside the hard, green shell that dangles from the spindly branches of Africa's most iconic tree is a citrussy pulp that has become a popular "superfood" in the United States and Europe.
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