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South Greenland Agriculture

Agricultural region

โš  GREENLAND DOES HAVE FARMING, and assuming otherwise is a common error. In KUJALLEQ, around Narsaq, Qassiarsuk and Igaliku โ€” the same sheltered fjords the Norse farmed a thousand years ago โ€” there is a real sheep industry of some tens of thousands of animals, with hay, potatoes, turnip, and increasingly other vegetables as the season lengthens, plus greenhouses. Greenlandic lamb, grazed on herbs in a short bright summer, is a distinct product.

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Languages: Greenlandic (Kalaallisut)

What is recorded

  • South Greenland supports a documented sheep-farming industry of some tens of thousands of animals, together with hay, potatoes, turnip, other vegetables and greenhouses, in the same fjords the Norse farmed. The common assumption that Greenland has no agriculture is incorrect. documented

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