Which is bigger, Taiwan red quinoa or quinoa? This way, red quinoa can also grow into large grains.
Besides the problem of red quinoa being short, more professional growers often ask: "How can Taiwan red quinoa be grown bigger? Are there improved large-grain varieties of red quinoa? Can we rely on cultivation techniques to do even better in nutritional and economic value?" Many consumers also prefer large-grain red quinoa, liking its springy, chewy texture; by decoding the red quinoa growing site, we let all growers and consumers understand that Taiwan red quinoa can also be very large-grained.
Taiwan red quinoa is a crop that wins on quality; each grain with its hull is only 2mm~2.2mm in diameter, and 1.1mm~1.8mm after hulling, while the grain diameter of the introduced Inca quinoa line is about 2mm~2.5mm; according to research by National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (the Red Quinoa Promotion Handbook of the Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan), although red quinoa grains are small, they are a grain with super-rich nutrition, and are therefore praised as the "ruby of grains."
Judging the different degrees of ripeness, harvesting by hand selection, is extremely labor- and time-consuming.
We hope "appropriate technology" can address the current situation of an aging agricultural population and a shortage of labor, but if the technology cannot yet meet quality requirements, we would rather give up production efficiency first and return to the original intention with an outdated method of manual production; those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy; if we seek only high-speed growth, the land and crops will show it truthfully, and only when growers re-examine their relationship with the land can friendly agriculture truly take root.