A root vegetable native to South America, Cassava, has been successfully cultivated in a field in South Korea for the first time.<br />Chungcheongbuk-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services planted Cassava in mid-May and after nearly six months,... five kilograms of the vegetable can be harvested every week.<br />If scaled up, two tons of Cassava can be produced per square kilometer.<br />It is one of the world's major crops according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization,... with 8-hundred million people in over 25 countries consuming it.<br />It can also be used as starch and bioethanol fuel.<br />
