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High-yield lotus root challenged record
www.chinanews.cn 2005-09-27 16:02:06
The Agriculture Bureau of Shandong's Pingyi County conducted an
assessment on the unit output of a new variety of Yugoslavian lotus root
on Sept. 26. The county's output of Yugoslavian lotus root was 10,650kg
per Mu (64,648.6kg per acre) while its output of commercial lotus root
(excluding small lotus root nodes) amounted to 8,050 kg per Mu. The
largest lotus root is 19cm in diameter and the longest one is 2.23 meters
in length and 12.85kg in weight. At present, the county has applied for
the Guinness World Record for the unit output of Yugoslavian lotus root.
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