作者: C. Winner
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-0373-9_1
关键词: Geography 、 Sugar production 、 Sugar industry 、 Spinach 、 Sugar factory 、 Swiss Chard 、 Crop 、 Bumper crop 、 Mediterranean climate 、 Agronomy
摘要: In ancient times different varieties of the beet plant were already being cultivated on shores Mediterranean as a garden vegetable. They grown mainly for their leaves, and probably resembled what we would describe today spinach or Swiss chard. both Greek and, later, Roman civilisations they highly valued supplements to ordinary diet.