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With New Hampshire’s treasured foliage beginning to turn the colors of autumn, Bush delivered his remarks from a podium flanked by pumpkins and bundles of hay—ostensibly reaped from the state’s fall harvest...
...matsutake boom has boosted Sui-nong's annual income from $100 to $1,000. Every summer, his family moves its yak, a butter churn and two guard dogs to a simple log cabin in the mountains?their base for the harvest season. "Its only three kilometers away" says Sui-nong one crisp morning as we leave his home, arriving four hours later in a luxuriant green valley strewn with pink and violet wildflowers. From here his family scours the uplands. The locals have never rated matsutake highly (they call them "dirt-termite mushrooms") and still can't believe the prices...
...Sitting around a blazing fire, Sui-nong examines the day's harvest. "Now everybody wants to pick mushrooms. But they pick them when they're too immature, so the mushrooms get fewer and fewer." Competition for matsutake is fierce in the region?resulting in violence and even murder in recent years. Only time will tell whether Yunnan's matsutake industry is sustainable. For now, Sui-nong believes his best hope is a little cunning. "I'm still keeping my patches a secret," he says, "while I pray for more thunder...
...guard them for two weeks until they get big enough to fetch a top price. Boasting one of the richest ecosystems on the planet, the lush, temperate mountains of northern Yunnan are, for two months of the year, home to maturing matsutake (known in Mandarin as songrong). When Japanese harvests were devastated by an insect-borne disease 15 years ago - a disaster from which the Japanese industry has yet to recover - these mountains became the world's matsutake hot spot. Yunnan now supplies Japan with more than half of its annual demand. The matsutake boom has boosted Sui-nong...
...such size and scope. The national bank forecasts that food prices will continue to rise at an annual rate of 9% through the end of the year. "Too pessimistic," says Citibank Handlowy analyst Katarzyna Zajdel-Kurowska, who thinks relief may actually be on the way. "We expect a good harvest will relieve some of the pressure." That would give Poles double cause for a feast of thanksgiving. Turbulence Over Italy Alitalia management and unions made little progress on a layoff-heavy deal to save the Italian flag carrier as a Sept. 15 deadline neared. "This is the last chance," warned...