{"id":49620,"date":"2025-06-09T15:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49620"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T05:07:45","slug":"ejiao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ejiao\/","title":{"rendered":"Ejiao"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ejiao Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, there has been a sudden surge in donkey prices in Pakistan due to China\u2019s demand for ejiao.<\/p>\n<h2>About Ejiao<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>gelatin used in traditional Chinese medicine<\/strong>, made by stewing and concentrating donkey skin.<\/li>\n<li>It is widely used in clinics for its biological advantages of being\u00a0<strong>anti-fatigue, immunity-improving properties,<\/strong>\u00a0for tumour suppression, and for its anti-anaemia effect.<\/li>\n<li>It is produced from the\u00a0<strong>collagen extracted<\/strong>\u00a0from donkey skin.<\/li>\n<li>The collagen is mixed with herbs and other ingredients to create bars, pills or liquids for consumable goods or beauty products.<\/li>\n<li>Between 2013 and 2016, the annual production of ejiao increased from 3,200 to 5,600 tonnes, a yearly growth of over 20%.<\/li>\n<li>China\u2019s ejiao industry has witnessed a 160 per cent growth in the past five years, fuelling more demand for millions of donkey hides annually.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Pakistan is only behind Ethiopia and Sudan in being home to the largest number of donkeys.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ejiao FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0What is Ejiao in English?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Ejiao is also known as &#8216;colla corii asini&#8217; or &#8216;donkey-hide glue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0How is donkey gelatin made?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0It is gelatin obtained from the skin of the donkey by soaking and stewing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/donkey-prices-soar-in-pakistan-due-to-chinas-demand-for-ejiao\/article69671666.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ejiao is a gelatin used in traditional Chinese medicine, made by stewing and concentrating donkey skin, valued for its supposed healing properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[767,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-49620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-ejiao","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}