‘작물의 으뜸’,조[粟]의 재배 역사와 경작과정: 강원도 사례를 중심으로

Abstract

This study is to examine the status of millet as a food crop and a representative Hwajeon(slash-and-burn) crop, focusing on the history of millet cultivation and the process of millet cultivation in Hwajeon farming in Gangwon-do. This study focused on millet farming conducted in Hwajeon in the Yeongseo region of Gangwon-do in the 1960s and 1970s. Field farming is the core of understanding agriculture in Gangwon-do, and Hwajeon farming cannot be left out. Hwajeon greatly affected daily life as well as agriculture. The most widely grown crop in hajeon farming was millet. Millet is widely cultivated not only in slash-and-burn fields, but also in plain fields as a crop in a double-cropping system that goes from barley and wheat to millet, soybeans, and red beans due to its short growing season of about 90 to 130 days. Therefore, millet was once the most widely cultivated crop in Gangwon-do and the main food for local residents. However, in the 1960s, millet, which was very difficult to weed and harvest, gradually lost its value as a food crop. In particular, as the Hwajeon clean-up project was carried out in the 1970s, the cultivation area of millet also decreased sharply. Even recently, millet has disappeared to the extent that it is classified as ‘other miscellaneous grains’ in agricultural statistics. This can be said to be reflected in the reality that there is no meaningless research on Joe, even though Joe was a food for Koreans from ancient times to recently. This can be said to be reflected in the reality that there is no meaningless research on millet, even though millet has been a food of Koreans and an axis of ‘Sokmaek(millet and Barley)’ culture from ancient times to recent times. Recently, millet has been receiving attention again as a health and future crop. We hope that this will lead to interest in ‘Sokmaek’ culture, which has been blooming in Korea for a long time with millet.