Photo Series: All About Celery

From Chinaeforum:

In October 2006 at Yanliang district of Shaanxi Province, one of the country’s biggest celery producing bases, farmers had a bumper harvest but had to dump their produce into ditches due to a dramatic dropping of prices. Unharvested stems of celery were destroyed in the soil to make way for a wheat cycle. [Click to see the original photos]

On Oct. 31, 2006, 20 well-known chefs in Shaanxi showing how to cook Chinese celery in different ways to the citizens. People hustling to taste a “Celery Meal.”

On Oct. 26, 2006, the price of celery hitting the rock bottom – 8 cents (1 US cent) per jin (half kilo) at Wutun town of Yanliang district in Xi’an city.

The farmers have to destroy their celery.

Farmers harvesting celery.