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Andong treats Andong, in North Gyeongsang Province, as a cannabis growing area: the hemp grown there for the fibre of Andong-po cloth, from the colonial-period accounts to the city's figures of 2020. Korean hemp cloth in general is treated at Sambe, and the law on hemp in both Korean states at Korea. The city of Andong as a whole is a separate subject.
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Why Andong is a growing area
- Gaebyeok no. 36 (1 June 1923), in its survey of North Gyeongsang: Andong county had about 195 jeongbo of hemp fields and produced more than 23,000 bolts of hemp cloth a year.
- Seoul Shinmun (24 May 2016), from Andong city: 13 farms in Imha and Seohu myeon grew hemp on 15,500 square metres that year, under permits from the city.
- Twig (17 June 2020), from Andong city: 4.5 hectares of hemp in Imha and Seohu myeon in 2020, with 18 growers.
- Doh and colleagues (2019): seed of a local cultivar collected at Andong in July 2008.
How the border is drawn
- The line follows the city of Andong (OpenStreetMap relation 7721487): about 1,500 km², the figure in the infobox. The 1923 figure is for the county as a whole and the later figures for the city, so the line follows the city.
- The fields named in the reports of 2013 to 2020 lie in Imha-myeon (Geumso-ri) and Seohu-myeon; the terrain line in the infobox says so.
- The infobox point (36.58, 128.78) is the centre of the border, not a field.
Growing status
The status is Active: the city's figures put the hemp area at 4.5 hectares in 2020, and reports of 2013 and 2016 describe the fields at Geumso-ri. No source says that growing has stopped.
The area figures
- Seoul Shinmun (29 June 2013) gives 30 hectares for 2008; Twig (17 June 2020) gives 38.2 hectares and 98 growers for the same year. Both cite Andong city. The 2020 report gives the longer series: 2008, 2009 and each year from 2016 to 2020.
- For 2016 Seoul Shinmun (May) gives 13 farms on 15,500 square metres, Maeil Shinmun (July) 14 farms on 1.47 hectares and Twig 1.5 hectares and 14 growers. The figures agree within the year.
- Gaebyeok gives the area in jeongbo (町步), a unit of about 0.99 hectares; "roughly 190 hectares" is the conversion.
Local cultivar
- Doh and colleagues (2019) list the Andong seed with the Jeongseon seed under one name, as one cultivar found in both places, collected in July 2008. The study calls the samples "local cultivars" and does not use the word landrace.
- Maeil Shinmun (5 July 2016) distinguishes the hemp grown at Andong from Cheongma, which it describes as having no narcotic content. Whether Cheongma is the bred cultivar Cheungsam is not stated.
Open questions
- Whether the hemp now grown at Andong comes from the local cultivar collected in 2008 or from bought seed. The 2020 report mentions help with the cost of seed but does not say what seed.