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Foxconn is not just interested in Wisconsin for its technology skills or its cancer research advances.

The Taiwanese electronics giant also wants to tap into Wisconsin’s agricultural resources — more specifically, ginseng.

Foxconn has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ginseng Board of Wisconsin for a yearlong collaboration to investigate ways to promote Wisconsin ginseng in Asia.

Robert Kaldunski, president of the Ginseng Board, said he was “very much surprised” to hear that Foxconn chairman Terry Gou and Leonard Wu, CEO of Foxconn Technology Group, wanted to meet with him.

“I thought electronics, televisions, phone ... I was happily surprised. We’re excited about things we could work together on,” Kaldunski said.

“Terry Gou is passionate about Wisconsin ginseng,” Kaldunski said. He said Gou told him both he and his mother take Wisconsin ginseng regularly.

“American ginseng is the treasure of Wisconsin,” Wu said. “It is a great opportunity for Foxconn to add our promotional and, hopefully, technological expertise to help Wisconsin American ginseng return to glory.”