[MPWG] ginseng growers in Ontario

[Michael Schenk]

>From what the article says, the market for cultivated ginseng, grown under artificial shade like a row crop, has collapsed due to competition from Chinese cultivated American ginseng.
I wonder how healthy is the prospect for wild-simulated and woods-grown American ginseng?


Mike
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>   1. NEWS: "It is not for the faint of wallet" (ginseng growers in
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>Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:41:35 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Olivia Kwong <plant at plantconservation.org>
>Subject: [MPWG] NEWS: "It is not for the faint of wallet" (ginseng
>	growers in Ontario, Canada)
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>http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Business/BusinessMonday/2008/08/11/6409011-sun.html
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>'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
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>SIMCOE -- These are hard, yet hopeful times in Ontario's ginseng gardens.
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>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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>See the link above for the full article text.
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