According to the Wikipedia the tonnage of buckwheat produced in 2007:
- Russia: 1,004,850
- China: 800,000
- Ukraine: 160,000
- France: 117,148
- Poland: 88,000
- Kazakhstan: 80,000
- United States: 68,000
- Brazil: 52,000
- Japan: 34,000
- Lithuania: 20,900
Quick survey of the US Kasha Land. The Kasha available in Whole Foods, in that pour your own packet aisle, was rejected as unfit to cook by the local Kasha conosuires. I also have it on good authority that the Israeli Kasha is really from China and still smells of chlorine. The original Russian Kasha (available in the Russian food stores) has gone up in price just recently to $10 per 1.5 kilo, unheard of price. The Russian Kasha packaging still sucks though.
As an American citizen I am appalled by this county’s dependence on the foreign Kasha. Whomever is the next President he or she should pull a reversed Khrushchev. Subsidies those Iowa voters to grow some healthy Kasha instead of the toxic and wasteful corn. Go Kasha President! I am starting a Kasha lobby.
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