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16923
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North Carolina agriculture, once leading the nation in returns per planted acres, has been hard hit in recent years. But a small, determined group of Eastern North Carolina family farmers has refused to give up their farms. Growing the kenaf plant, eastern North Carolina farmers have found an environmentally-friendly, profitable, fixed-price alternative to commodity crops.
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16933
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In recent years, like many small North Carolina communities, Hookerton (on the southern bank of Contentnea Creek in Greene County) has seen a precipitous decline in its economic and population base. Thus, its wastewater treatment system is in disrepair. But Hookerton has latched on to the duckweed wastewater treatment system that uses duckweed lagoons as bioreacters to generate clean water.
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