Most of the population in the surrounding area is engaged in agriculture, and crops produced include wheat, barley, vegetables, and fruits; goats and sheep are also raised.
The city is a market centre for the surrounding agricultural area, which produces wheat, cotton, barley, vegetables, fruit, nuts, and sesame.
The principal economic activities are agriculture (soybeans, barley, vegetables, and poultry), fishing (crabs and oysters), manufacturing (food processing and electronic equipment), and tourism.
Its yields have included wheat, oats, "exceptionally fine barley", vegetables and fruit, perhaps even pineapples (I'm romanticising, but they were certainly being grown in a nearby nursery by 1740).
From 1997 to 2002, rice, barley, vegetables, soybeans, sugar beet, groundnuts, sesame, sweet potatoes, leguminous crops, rubber, coffee, tea, grapes, citrus, plantains, other cereals, and tobacco have been increased and instead wheat, maize, cotton, flowers millet, and other roots and tubers have been decrease.
Soup is easy, uses up bits and bobs and if you eat seasonally, you won't get bored of the same thing all the time, but my favourite is pearl barley and vegetable.
Carbohydrates – Stick to unrefined, high fiber sources that will provide you with a steady stream of sugars throughout the day such as oatmeal, yams, potatoes, vegetables, fresh fruits, brown rice, whole grains, buckwheat, rye, barley, sea vegetables.
Wheat, barley, oilseeds, vegetables, fruits, and cotton are grown in the surrounding area.
Only a small area along the rivers in the south is cultivated in rye, potatoes, oats, barley, and vegetables.
