Rose George - China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is ...

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China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that its soils are still healthy after four millennia of intensive agriculture, while other great civilizations - the Maya, for one - floundered when their soils turned to dust.

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Chinas Verwendung von „Nachtboden“, wie die Chinesen zu Recht nach dem Einbruch der Dunkelheit gesammelten Dünger nennen, ist wahrscheinlich der Grund dafür, dass seine Böden nach vier Jahrtausenden intensiver Landwirtschaft immer noch gesund sind, während andere große Zivilisationen - die Maya zum einen - zappelten wenn ihre Böden zu Staub wurden.

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