Biological Farming Association Elkana
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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