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Ever since hoodia diet pills were available on a mass scale in 2004, the demand for hoodia gordonii has always outpaced supply. The end result has been skyrocketing prices with no relief in site - until maybe this year.
I wrote about the price of hoodia and how it might be coming down this year with the help from a South African company called, Afriplex. They planted 12 million hoodia gordonii plants and its first harvest in April 2007 is expected to yield 80 dry tonnes of hoodia gordonii. This will certainly affect the supply side of the equation and should help meet the ever increasing demand of hoodia gordonii.
There may also be relief coming this year from the country of Namibia. Hoodia grows naturally and legally in only a few countries including Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, and Zimbabwe. However, the only market that has been open to buyers and exporters is South Africa - until later this year when Namibia’s hoodia gordonii market will be opening. This added supply, along with the supply from Afriplex, will definitely help meet the rising demand of hoodia.
As I mentioned in my previous article, the additional supply of raw hoodia gordonii is great news for hoodia sellers such as Desert Burn, Hoodoba, and other companies that use only authentic hoodia gordonii in their products - and should be great news for consumers as well. Only time will tell if the price of raw hoodia does indeed come down and if the decrease in price translates into a drop in the retail prices of hoodia diet pills.
So far I haven’t seen any movement in the price of hoodia diet pills but it’s a little too early to tell. The Afriplex supply won’t be available until next month and Namibia’s market won’t be open until later this year. However, these two additional sources of hoodia gordonii are significant enough that there may be a possibility that the price of hoodia diet pills will come down a little. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.
Source: hoodiaandweightloss.com |
