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Das weiße Gold der Batschka, ein nachwachsender Rohstoff heute?
E:
White Gold of
Backa, a renewable resource
today?.
A 132 page field report by Martin Butter of
Kirchbierlingen
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Date published: 2001
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Publisher: Books on Demand GmbH
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Language: German
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ISBN-10:
3831117659
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ISBN-13:
978-3831117659
Short Description:
Martin Butter worked all his life with hemp and has now captured in writing his experience with cannabis sativa. The Danube Swabian recounts the importance this plant had for his ancestors: it cultivated the land, and its fiber, the difficulty of whose production he describes, brought prosperity and wealth as the "white gold" of the Batschka." After the war he had been producing this high quality natural fiber in Germany, until it was displaced from the market by the synthetic fibres. When the drug investigators criminalized the cultivation of hemp, he had to close his business as the last hemp processor in Germany. With this book he makes a contribution to the current discussion about hemp as a renewable raw material. On the basis of his experience, he criticises the too high expectations of a quick and amateur processing of this plant. (Translation by Nick Tullius, 13 Apr 2012) |
