My guess would be something to break fibers of plants. Say sugar cane so that the cane juice could be better extracted. Or maybe flax. Make the final output product more susceptible to processing chemicals.
Just a wild guess. Your agriculture is quite different than ours I suspect.
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Date: 2007-08-01 02:42 pm (UTC)Just a wild guess. Your agriculture is quite different than ours I suspect.