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S.Africa’s ‘crazy’ mountain farmers cash in on truffle bet
CERES: Only shrubs grew naturally in the sandy acid soil that farmer Volker Miros chose as a site to test the potential for truffle production in South Africa.The determined mycophile saw no reason why the highly prized fungi could not grow on the plateaus of South Africa’s rugged Cederberg mountains in the west of the country, where the climate is similar to that of Mediterranean Europe.“We looked at where truffles are grown in the rest of the world and it’s in the northern hemisphere, about 32 to 35 degrees north,“ said the white-bearded Miros, wearing a black beanie on a chilly winter day.“The same thing needs to be looked at 35 degrees south” — where the family farm lies around 1,100 m a

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