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World Service,30 Oct 1995,13 mins

Amaranth, the Salt-loving Cereal

The Farming World

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Encouraging news from the Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA) and China for farmers whose land has become too saline to grow most crops: amaranth is a cereal crop able to tolerate salty ground.

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