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 Academician N. Vavilov, studying plants of Central Asia at the beginning of the century, visited several cities. They were all different, but in every city one could see the same picture.
On the outskirts of the city or in the bazaar, a camel with a blindfold walked in a circle. He dragged a huge lever that set in motion an equally impressive pestle. The pestle was spinning in a giant mortar and grinding sesame seeds, an oilseed herb.
They immediately squeezed out the oil and sold it.
It tasted as delicious as olive. The heat-loving olive could not grow in Central Asia due to the harsh winters, and it was replaced by sesame.
Sesame leaves are a bit like willow tea, and only its pink flowers are not collected by the sultan at the top, but stick to the stem almost to the ground. In the fall, flowers are replaced by boxes of seeds. Seeds are small, like match heads. White and black. Whites are more valuable.
They are sprinkled on loaves of Borodino bread or grind and make the world's best takhin halva.
In the old days, merchants came to Bukhara. They bought sesame oil and then mixed it with olive oil. Sesame was cheaper, and falsification gave big profits. The fraud was eventually exposed. However, it turned out that sesame oil is no worse than olive oil, and sometimes even better. Now they began to add olive to counterfeit sesame seeds.
In 1893, the Free Economic Society became interested in sesame seeds. It decided to promote the oilseed herb to the Caucasus. An award was announced: a gold medal and 25 ducats to the one who grows sesame seeds and knocks out a pood of butter.
The task seemed simple, but of all who took part in the competition, almost no one managed to get a pood of butter. With great difficulty, only one of the competitors achieved the desired goal.
To understand the difficulty of the task at hand, you need to know well the structure of sesame seeds. And especially the boxes in which the seeds ripen. Seeds can only be obtained from mature capsules when they have opened. In India, where sesame also grows, the peasants are waiting for the desired hour and hurrying: "Sesame, open up!" (sesame is the middle name of sesame). However, sesame bolls do not ripen at once. First, the upper ones open, in a day those that are lower, in another day the next batch, and so on.
Imagine what happens if the wind blows, if it rains or a bird lands on a sesame stalk. The stem will tremble. Ripe seeds will sprinkle on the ground. We have to take precautions: harvest unripe grass and dry it in sheaves. But here the ants come into play. They line up, squeeze one at a time into the box, grab a seed and rush to their base. Then they find half a kilo of selected seeds in the nests.
Scientists wondered: is it possible to find a variety of sesame seeds with non-opening boxes? They searched for several years. Finally found! The connoisseurs gasped with admiration: a revolution in the oilseed business! Harvesters can now be used for harvesting. The seeds will not spill out.
However, mechanization brought its own difficulties. The bottom pods are too close to the ground. The machine cannot capture them. It is necessary to develop varieties with a different stem design. Another problem: the harvest is small. Ten times less than wheat. Once the seeds were washed in a solution of copper sulfate. They sowed and got a higher yield. Sesame turned out to be partial to copper.
But the main challenge is to make sesame seeds resistant to cold. Once the Free Economic Society sent seeds for experiments far to the north. Even in Ryazan. The experiments failed. What if you try again?
A. Smirnov. Tops and roots
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