CHICAGO, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Jiang Mingtao, a ginseng farmer in Marathon County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, has maintained the routine daily life of taking care of his ginseng fields, weeding and spreading hay over the field to prevent small animals from digging and eating.
Harvest will start in less than a month, but Jiang is a bit worried. Trade tensions between China and the United States have dealt a big blow to his ginseng cultivation, and now the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic has further plunged the business into a downturn.
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