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Coastal communities cash in on lucrative love medicine
A remote fishing village in southern Madagascar has sold its first batch of locally farmed sea cucumbers – believed to be a potent love medicine in southeast Asia – and is hoping to cash in on the lucrative market for unusual aphrodisiacs in advance of Chinese New Year next month.