To give hope and a new life to cancer patients, Rajasthan’s Agriculture department is experimenting with olives. It is busy in producing anti-cancer drugs from olives. According to a research, there is triterpenic acid in olive fruits. Triterpenic acid is useful in treatment of cancer. This led pharmaceutical companies and agriculture experts to use olive for curing cancer patients.
What agriculture department said on the olive as cancer-curing agent?
The agriculture department said there was research in one of the Universities of India where tritrepenoids was extracted from the leaves and fruits olive. As tritrepenoid is useful in cancer treatment so Rajasthan is making efforts to extract tritrepenoids from olive leaves and fruits.
Other benefits of tritrepenoids
Tritrepenoids in olive is not only useful in treatment for different kinds of cancers. It is also used to treat HIV.
Olive farming in Rajasthan
Recently, 5000 hectare of land has been used for olive farming in Rajasthan. The first plant of Olive was planted at Dhindhol farm in Bassi, Jaipur district in year 2008. In Rajasthan, seven different varieties of olive are cultivated. In fact, Rajasthan is so prosper in farming of olives that it supplies to other states of the country.
