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| Korea |
| Viciavillosa, Green Manure Crop |
| 2004-01-13 |
| More from the Food Pages of KCNA... Viciavillosa has been widely cultivated for green manure in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Many co-operative farms of Pyongyang, Hwangju County of North Hwanghae Province and other parts of the country harvested 5-10 tons of sweet potatoes from a hectare of the fields fertilized with viciavillosa more than in ordinary fields. ...ordinary fields grow 0 tons of sweet potatoes. Good heroin, though. It, with many nutritive elements including oil cellulose, is good protein fodder of domestic animals. Domestic animals I think means North Korean farmers. Viciavillosa honey is popular for its peculiar taste and aroma. Oh, I’ll bet. Gimme some of that manure smelling honey willya, mamasan? Although sawdust is also popular for it’s taste. As is dirt and leaves... The crop can be cultivated easily everywhere as it grows well and its sowing method is simple. Like...grass? It, belonging to the pulse family, is sown in maize field as an aftercrop. It opens flowers in the second half of next May and its seeds ripen in late June. Can’t wait for KCNA’s articles on the discovery of Soylent Green... |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #6 Danger! Danger! This is evidence the NORKS are getting close to the SEED/PLANT relationship. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-1-13 7:51:08 PM |
| #5 Yeah, but this is different. It's... ummm... greeen. |
| Posted by: Fred 2004-1-13 7:19:24 PM |
| #4 Not only was this done in America for the past fifty years, but worldwide since the Neolithic era. Take a field, rotate it between main crop, legume, and nothing (field fallow, used for grazing, produces manure). In the 17th century, they started using clover instead of legumes, I believe. "Green Manure" refers to that rotation. It's been known to replenish the soil for at least 3000 years. |
| Posted by: Crescend 2004-1-13 9:13:37 AM |
| #3 Ya know what they're bragging about here? The use of a bean plant as a nitrogen-fixer. The give-away is the fact that the plant "belongs to the pulse family". American farmers have been doing this for at least fifty years, probably longer: Rotate a field between soybeans, corn, and (in my area) tobacco, and the soybeans replenish the soil-bound nitrogen needed by the other crops. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-1-13 8:22:37 AM |
| #2 Don't laugh... this is the same process that led to the oyster breakthrough. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-1-13 7:54:17 AM |
| #1 Viciavillosa, will it attract more flies (manure) or bees (honey). |
| Posted by: ed 2004-1-13 12:27:47 AM |