"In this underground space, more than just one type of crop is grown. Although there are both water and drought-resistant rice, their maturation period is too long. So, most of what's planted are the fast-growing 'little millet'!"
Wang Yanyu had never eaten 'little millet' before, but with the recent food shortage and disaster, she had learned about this easily grown wild food.
This food is a type of grass and actually looks no different from millet.
The key is that it matures quickly, often yielding a field full of ears in just over a month;
The millet formed by the little millet is small, black, and hard. Even when ground into powder to make millet cakes, it's hard to swallow.
The land in Beiyed County has never had a rice harvest fail, always top-grade farmland.
So, before the locust plague, no one in Beiyed County had ever planted 'little millet'. But now, it's a year of disaster, so who still cares about taste and nutrition?
