20/04/2009
News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. Charlotte hears how daffodils grown for a dementia drug could be the salvation of Welsh hill farmers.
Charlotte Smith hears how daffodils grown for a dementia drug could be the salvation of Welsh hill farmers. The flowers are the first commercial crop for a Welsh company which will extract a natural compound from them to make a drug which relieves some of the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. As Charlotte Smith discovers, it doesn't work with any old daff, nor on any old hillside. You need the magic of the Black Mountains.
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