Finally, a use is found for Japanese 'natto'
Topic: Japanese life
Natto" is vile fermented soy slime and the horror of foreigners in Japan (yes, I eat it).

'Natto' eyed to fertilize world's deserts
Kyodo Press / Mar 18
Toshio Hara, an assistant professor at Kyushu University, has a dream of turning deserts into vast green fields by using a resinous substance deriving from "natto" fermented soybeans mixed with sludge containing nutritious ingredients and plant seeds. His idea is to bury substances generating from natto and sludge in the ground to convert deserts into land covered by vegetation.....