The golden autumn festival, the fragrance of rice. On september 23, this year, china's farmers' harvest festival, chinese agricultural technical experts from overseas are working hard around the world, bringing chinese technology and chinese experience to a number of countries and regions to contribute to the increased harvest of local crops。
Malawi is located in south-eastern africa and is one of the world's least developed countries with a predominantly agricultural economy, with major cash crops including coffee, tea, cotton, sugar cane, etc。
In october 2024, a team of seven experts from the china-fao-malawi second project on south-south cooperation arrived in malawi to conduct research and training on fruit, vegetables, beans and animal disease prevention at the agricultural research institute in blantyre in the south and lilongwe in the capital。
In the case of farming, agricultural experts in china have increased the production of maize, soybeans and soybeans by improving cropping methods, in accordance with the local natural environment, and have carried out local nursery breeding and seeding guidance. Agricultural technology in china has ensured the survival of the guacamole and saved seeds, which have been widely praised。
Shen shivan: when we started doing this, like the western red plug, the local population thought it was impossible — because tradition was based on seed breeding, and we went straight to the western red plug. When they saw the tomatoes grow, they were satisfied that the chinese method was good. We teach them through home-made nutrition tools, which they have never seen before, high rates of survival and good growth, and they are satisfied。
Shen shiwan introduced peanuts and two-way cultivation to malawian agriculture department officials
At present, the group has completed a training course on agricultural machinery and has completed guidance and training on new techniques for multi-formulation of fruit and vegetables, vegetable breeding, organic fertilizer production, and western red incubation and dry crop narrow double-cropping。
Shen shivan: now that our fruit tree has grown seedlings, the fao base in the south has been retrofitted and trained to promote our citrus, and now we have good prospects for harvest. They were very pleased when they got the market to cash, and they sent the first dish to our premises to thank us。
Judith gordi, head of the livestock research institute of the malawi agricultural institute, stated that she had harvested chinese vegetables on the farm through the techniques of planting vegetables taught by chinese experts, that the market was very good and that her two baskets of vegetables had been sold soon in the past day。
Judith gordy: chinese experts taught us a new technology — how to grow vegetables in containers. Now, i'm a happy farmer because i can sell vegetables grown in my backyard. Thank you for teaching us this technology。
Local farmers, under the guidance of chinese experts, grow chinese cabbage with a smile of joy after harvest。
Shen shivan has been engaged in agricultural assistance for many years in benin, papua new guinea, grenada and fiji. He was well aware of the importance of “caught for fish” and was acutely aware of the desire of malawian people for new agricultural technologies。
Shen shiwan: whether we are cooperating bilaterally with african countries or through the tripartite cooperation project of the food and agriculture organization of the united nations (fao), i think it would be very helpful to improve understanding and friendship between the central african countries by enhancing their capacity-building, expanding productive capacities and truly benefiting ordinary people。
