Albert Szent-Györgyi and the paprika
The beginnings of paprika-growing
The paprika harvest
The paprika-„splitting”
The paprika-„smashing”
The paprika market
The paprika mills
The paprika research
The paprika packaging
  The beginnings of paprika-growing

Bed­ding out the plant to­geth­er
People with hoe on the field­s

Cap­sic­um, i­f grown do­mest­ic­ally, is planted in the gar­dens. For whole­sale pro­duc­tion it is cul­tiv­ated on the field­s. The most prop­er ground for it are the so-c­alled "­black sand-field­s" (60-70and, 30-40H­lay). There­fore is Szeged a real hot­bed of cap­sic­um cul­tiv­a­tion. There are in­ter­est­ing h­abit­s an­d tra­di­tion­s con­nec­ted to the paprika. In the Szeged area wild cap­sic­um (Vin­centox­ic­um la­cum) is known as a peas­ant medi­cine: the dried root is steeped in pálinka (Hun­gari­an brandy), thus used for stom­ach, liv­er an­d s­pleen prob­lem­s.



Tak­ing out the cap­sic­um plant­s be­fore bed­ding
Bed­ding out the plant


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