Accidental discovery leads to dietary supplement export bonanza

摘要

In what is believed to be a first for New Zealand, exports of an organic soil nutrient discovered by accident in a Southland farm have launched into the US. A deposit of fulvic acid covering one square kilometre, and believed to be worth millions of dollars in processed form, was discovered following oil and gas exploration surveys that happened in the 1950s. Deposits of this size are rare by international standards, with only a few countries around the world able to extract fulvic acid for nutritional products.