Greenland’s potato crops are so healthy that researchers are seriously studying whether there is something special mixed into the island’s soil. In particular, the mould that often attacks and destroys potato crops fails to do so in Greenland’s dirt.
These Greenlandic super potatoes apparently have something in them that prevents fungus disease like mould from destroying the crop. This has caught the interest of Danish scientists. The Politiken Sondag newspaper reports that potato farmers from Denmark and countless other countries frequently battle mould that kills the young shoots or retards the growth and quality of the potatoes.
Researchers have wondered for years why Greenland’s potatoes are so healthy, and they are finally making headway. “We have established that there is mould present in the earth in Greenland that is of the same kind as that in Denmark. At the same time, we have found bacteria that is not present in Danish soil and which is thought to be especially suitable for Greenland’s climate conditions. The laboratory tests show that it releases substances that inhibit mould,” said microbiologist Peter Stougaard to Politiken.
Stougaard, an associate professor at the Department of Agriculture and Ecology at the University of Copenhagen, feels if they can identify the bacteria that inhibit the growth of mould it can be introduced into the soil of other cold growing areas such as Denmark and Alaska. This would allow everyone to produce super potatoes akin to those grown in Greenland.
https://www.icenews.is/index.php/2010/08/18/cairn-energy-sells-indian-shares-to-concentrate-on-greenland-oil/
https://www.icenews.is/index.php/2010/01/22/greenland-financial-independence-predicted-by-2015/
Next year we can expect Icelandic oil and gas license to be taken up again if it not before.
https://www.icenews.is/index.php/2009/01/23/oil-exploration-licences-on-sale-in-iceland/#comment-60997
Jim – USA
>” Now that Greenland is almost a sovereign nation, they are very vulnerable to the jackals and hyenas of .. ”
Not the EU lets hope, as they were first to leave the EU in 1985 over how EU common fisheries policy was destorying fish stocks every hwere.
But at moment they get too much subsidy from Denmark. But if a few people there figure out industries of profits ( like oil and gas ) they will be fine.
OUTSTANDING COMMENT vikingisson! It’s good to see that the word is getting out about Monsanto and their malicious idea of patenting life forms.
Now that Greenland is almost a sovereign nation, they are very vulnerable to the jackals and hyenas of Goldman Sachs, Monsanto, BP, the U.S. State Department, and the contagion of ghouls from the Chicago School of Economics.
This is interesting. I truly hope that the likes of Monsanto don’t come in with their evil GM nonsense and tired old promises of feeding the world. The old fashion natural manipulation as suggested in the article is the better way. They must be careful that the introduction of non native bacteria won’t cause other problems like has happened in other places.
Give it a go Greenland and Denmark but please don’t patent the process or turn the potato into Franken food.
Go Greenland!