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A worker spreads rose petals outside a house in the city of Kelaat Mgouna (or Tighremt NImgunen) in Morocco’s central Tinghir Province in the Atlas Mountains on April 26, 2021. AFP
A hard but sweet-smelling slog on Mt Atlas – Morocco’s Valley of the Roses
Mon, 10 May 2021
To earn a dollar, rose picker Izza in Morocco s Atlas Mountains wakes up at dawn to collect three kilos of flowers – eventually distilled into precious oil costing $18,000 per kilo. We earn just enough to live on, she says, her hands gloved against the thorns and her head covered against the hot sun bearing down on the Valley of the Roses in the kingdom s south.
Hard but sweet-smelling slog in Morocco s Valley of the Roses
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04/05/2021 - 05:08 In Morocco s Kelaat Mgouna in the Atlas Mountains, roses are a key industry, and its annual festival attracted thousands of visitors before Covid-19 FADEL SENNA AFP 4 min
Kelaat Mgouna (Morocco) (AFP)
To earn a dollar, rose picker Izza in Morocco s Atlas Mountains wakes up at dawn to collect three kilos of flowers eventually distilled into precious oil costing $18,000 per kilo. We earn just enough to live on, she says, her hands gloved against the thorns and her head covered against the hot sun bearing down on the Valley of the Roses in the kingdom s south.
Tue 04th May 2021 | 08:30 AM
Kelaat Mgouna, Morocco, May 4 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 4th May, 2021 ) :To earn a Dollar, rose picker Izza in Morocco s Atlas Mountains wakes up at dawn to collect three kilos of flowers eventually distilled into precious oil costing $18,000 per kilo. We earn just enough to live on, she says, her hands gloved against the thorns and her head covered against the hot sun bearing down on the Valley of the Roses in the kingdom s south.
The harvest begins at dawn, and it takes about six hours before the sunshine damages the shocking pink petals to fill the big bags that the women carry on their heads to the weighing station.