http://agro.biodiver.se/2007/03/swapping-sorghum-for-tea/ Crops, animals, wild relatives ... Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:45:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://agro.biodiver.se/2007/03/swapping-sorghum-for-tea/comment-page-1/#comment-10002 Jeremy Sun, 01 Apr 2007 07:53:13 +0000 http://agro.biodiver.se/2007/03/swapping-sorghum-for-tea/#comment-10002 I couldn't agree more, and will try and keep an eye on the project. But I have to say I am not hopeful. A scheme in Tamil Nadu in India, which saw villagers growing cassava as a cash crop to feed starch-extracting factories, resulted in the loss of valuable millet diversity and poor nutrition. With help, the villagers eventuslly realized what they had lost and are now much better off, but it was touch and go. I couldn’t agree more, and will try and keep an eye on the project. But I have to say I am not hopeful. A scheme in Tamil Nadu in India, which saw villagers growing cassava as a cash crop to feed starch-extracting factories, resulted in the loss of valuable millet diversity and poor nutrition. With help, the villagers eventuslly realized what they had lost and are now much better off, but it was touch and go.

]]> http://agro.biodiver.se/2007/03/swapping-sorghum-for-tea/comment-page-1/#comment-9948 Trinifar Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:30:57 +0000 http://agro.biodiver.se/2007/03/swapping-sorghum-for-tea/#comment-9948 Countries in Africa and elsewhere are in quite a bind when it comes to decisions like this. Poverty on the one hand, and trading off a feedgrain for tea on the other. I hope they are right about being able to produce a premium tea that fetches a high price. Countries in Africa and elsewhere are in quite a bind when it comes to decisions like this. Poverty on the one hand, and trading off a feedgrain for tea on the other. I hope they are right about being able to produce a premium tea that fetches a high price.

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