Prickly pear is consumed as food and used to make oils, cosmetics and body-care products. In Chebika, as in other rural areas in central Tunisia, many farmers' fields of prickly pear -- also known as ...
In Chebika, as in other rural areas in central Tunisia, many farmers' fields of prickly pear have been spoiled by the cochineal, which swept through North Africa 10 ...