About OIKOS Tree Crops
More than 15,000 plants are used by humans as food. Today, to any extent, only 150 species are commercially grown. There are more than 10,000 apple varieties. Today, only dozens of species are grown commercially, and these are from six initial choices at OIKOS Tree Crops. Where did these diversity go? You can say that time has passed by them, or they just forgot them and got lost. It may be their love for unity. Modern agriculture likes to be the same—variety or variety is the goal. Everything needs to be repeated over and over again. Why do all corn fields look the same? This is really not the way corn grows in the "wild field" or reproduces on its own. OIKOS Tree Crops did it. For farmers and consumers, consistency is desirable. Unfortunately, this also brought them death.