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Biological Farming Association Elkana

HQ 🇬🇪 Georgia · 1 project tracked

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Elkana: Reviving the Caucasus's Lost Wheat

Food & Farming

🇬🇪 Georgia

Georgian farmers rebuilt a organic-farming union from 9 founding members into a nationwide network that is bringing indigenous Caucasus wheat varieties, wiped out under Soviet collectivization, back into highland fields.

2,000farmersFarmers, groups and enterprises supported nationwide
9farmersFounding farmer members in 1994
188varietiesIndigenous wheat varieties conserved at the Samtskhe-Javakheti seed farm
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