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November 07, 2006
article: Qinghai royal jelly
"Bee-keeper Ye Xiulin takes my hand in a friendly, if somewhat sticky, grip and welcomes me to his farm. The two tents where he lives with his family are pitched in between seemingly boundless fields of golden oil seed rape. A chaotic brown cloud that hovers over the flowers issues a low roar like a distant waterfall.
I have come here with Makoto Shibata, the president of Tokyo health food company Maruwa and Co. For over 30 years his company has been importing royal jelly from China to Japan -- and the bee farms here by the banks of lake Qinghai in central China produce some of the best in the world. . . . "read more
Posted by tony at November 7, 2006 11:53 AM
