Bad Krozingen (dpa) – An agricultural initiative in Breisgau wants to save a cauliflower variety that is threatened with extinction. With the help of a company, the Gartencoop Freiburg would like to bring enough seeds of the winter cauliflower Wainfleet onto the market so that the culture can be grown on several fields again. It’s about preserving an uncrossed species, said Luciano Ibarra.
For experts from the Federal Association of German Plant Breeders and the Service Center for the Rural Area of the Rhine Palatinate, breeding such old, “non-seed” varieties is a niche market. There are many reasons why it is not worth it. Among other things, the cultivation is more complex than with specially grown types of cabbage.
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