[MPWG] NEWS: "It is not for the faint of wallet" (ginseng growers in Ontario, Canada)

[Olivia Kwong]

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Business/BusinessMonday/2008/08/11/6409011-sun.html

'It is not for the faint of wallet'
Mon, August 11, 2008
COVER STORY: Struggling area ginseng producers face low prices, high costs 
and trade hurdles, but see big opportunities ahead
By JOHN MINER

SIMCOE -- These are hard, yet hopeful times in Ontario's ginseng gardens.

After building a tightly held family secret into the province's 
fifth-largest cash crop in just a couple of decades and turning 
Southwestern Ontario's sand plain into the North American capital for the 
revered root crop, ginseng growers are struggling.

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