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China opens the first museum dedicated to vegetables
China
Monday 26 April 2010
FJ
The Museum of vegetables redraws the relation between the development of truck farmings and society over about 4000 years of history.
Original museum redrawing the history of China, from civilization of Longshan (2340 before J.C) to the modern time, through the relation between the culture of vegetables and the Chinese society.
The Shouguang museum vegetables offers, on about 3000 m2, to discover numerous drawings, tools agricultural as those used approximately 2100 years ago during the dynasty of Oof, or specimens as fossil plant of 130 million years.
The museum is situated in the city of Shouguang, known under the name of "City of China vegetables" where 56.000 hectares of the total surface of farmlands (94 000 hectares) are used to cultivate vegetables.
The region produced approximately 4 billion kilograms of vegetables in 2009.
